code: def strip_consecutive_repeated_char(s, ch):
      
      sdest = ""
      for i,c in enumerate(s):
          if i != 0 and s[i] == ch and s[i] == s[i-1]:
              continue
          sdest += s[i]
      return sdest
docs: Strip characters in a string which are consecutively repeated.
  
      Useful when in notes or some other free text fields on Mambu, users
      capture anything and a lot of capture errors not always detected by
      Mambu get through. You want some cleaning? this may be useful.
  
      This is a string processing function.