Grouping lists

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If I have a list say

lst = [1,1,1,1,3,5,1,1,1,1,7,7,7]
I want to group the list so that it returns groups such as
[(0,3),4,5,(6,9),(10,12)]. which defines the regions which are similar.

Thanks,

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