[Python-ideas] itertools.chunks(iterable, size, fill=None)

Now that Python 3 is all about iterators (which is a user killer feature for Python according to StackOverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python) would it be nice to introduce more first class functions to work with them? One function to be exact to split string into chunks.

itertools.chunks(iterable, size, fill=None)

Which is the 33th most voted Python question on SO - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/312443/how-do-you-split-a-list-into-evenl...

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