title: Replace consecutive repeated characters with one - Column-wise operation - `pandas.DataFrame`
body: <p>How do I remove repeated characters in string and just leave one of them.</p>
  
  <p>e.g:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>"Bertuggggg Mete" 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to</p>
  
  <pre><code>"Bertug Mete"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've just read data like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>dataFrame = pd.read_excel("C:\\Users\\Bertug\\Desktop\\example.xlsx")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Name
  0 Bertuggggg Mete</p>
  
  <p>Input is read from .xlsx file. I have tried split and strip functions but they don't work seem to work as expected.</p>
  
  <p>How I can solve this problem ? </p>