[Python] How to find the longest sequence of equal consecutive elements in a list? [duplicate]

I'm working with a list of integers, like this one:

[1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3]


I need to find the length of the longest sequence of the same element appearing consecutively. In this case, the answer should be 3 because the number 2 appears three times in a row.

I tried using collections.Counter, but it only counts total occurrences, not consecutive ones. Is there a clean way to do this using loops?

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