Sum of consecutive numbers example in Python

 def sum_consecutives(x): #[1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,0,4,3,3,1,1,1,1,1]  
   #x = str(x)  
   print(x)  
   result= []  
   i=0  
   while(i < len(x)):  
     temp = x[i] #1  
     #print(i)  
     if(i+1 < len(x)):  
       while i+1<len(x)and x[i] == x[i+1]:  
         temp = temp + x[i]  
         i +=1  
     i = i+1  
     result.append(temp)       
   return result          
 some_variable = sum_consecutives([1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,0,4,3,3,3,3,4,1,1,1])  
 print(some_variable)