class_docstr: A piece of text with associated style. Segments are produced by the Console render process and
  are ultimately converted in to strings to be written to the terminal.
  
  Args:
      text (str): A piece of text.
      style (:class:`~rich.style.Style`, optional): An optional style to apply to the text.
      control (Tuple[ControlCode], optional): Optional sequence of control codes.
  
  Attributes:
      cell_length (int): The cell length of this Segment.
docstr: Simplify an iterable of segments by combining contiguous segments with the same style.
  
  Args:
      segments (Iterable[Segment]): An iterable of segments.
  
  Returns:
      Iterable[Segment]: A possibly smaller iterable of segments that will render the same way.
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code: def simplify(
      cls, segments: Iterable["Segment"]
  ) -> Iterable["Segment"]:
      """Simplify an iterable of segments by combining contiguous segments with the same style.
  
      Args:
          segments (Iterable[Segment]): An iterable of segments.
  
      Returns:
          Iterable[Segment]: A possibly smaller iterable of segments that will render the same way.
      """
      iter_segments = iter(segments)
      try:
          last_segment = next(iter_segments)
      except StopIteration:
          return
  
      _Segment = Segment
      for segment in iter_segments:
          if (
              last_segment.style == segment.style
              and not segment.control
          ):
              last_segment = _Segment(
                  last_segment.text + segment.text, last_segment.style
              )
          else:
              yield last_segment
              last_segment = segment
      yield last_segment
  
imports: from enum import IntEnum
  from functools import lru_cache
  from itertools import filterfalse
  from logging import getLogger
  from operator import attrgetter
  from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Dict, Iterable, List, NamedTuple, Optional, Sequence, Tuple, Type, Union
  from .cells import _is_single_cell_widths, cached_cell_len, cell_len, get_character_cell_size, set_cell_size
  from .repr import Result, rich_repr
  from .style import Style
label_desc: Use image node_id 19 for calling the Segment obj's underlying member method code with example usage: obj.simplify(cls, segments) without return types