How can i get count of irregular repeating characters?

Input is xyz = ‘aaabbbaaa’, I want output as 3a3b3a

xyz = 'aaabbbaaa'
p = xyz[0]
i = 0
out = {}
while i < len(xyz):
    if p == xyz[i]:
        if xyz[i] not in out:
            out[xyz[i]] = []
        out[xyz[i]].append(xyz[i])
    else:
        p = xyz[i]
    i += 1
print(out)

Help me, How can i achieve this??

>Solution :

This is likely the simplest method and easiest to understand.

Create a tally variable and increment it when you see repeating characters, then when you see a non repeating character write the previous character and the tally to a string and start the tally back to 1…. repeat until string ends

xyz = 'aaabbbaaa'
tally = 1
string = ''
prev = xyz[0]
for char in xyz[1:]:
    if char == prev:
        tally += 1
    else:
        string += str(tally) + prev
        prev = char
        tally = 1
string += str(tally) + prev
print(string)   # 3a3b3a