[Python-ideas] Batching/grouping function for itertools

[Devin Jeanpierre]

On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Amber Yust <amber.yust at gmail.com> wrote:
> After seeing yet another person asking how to do this on #python (and having
> needed to do it in the past myself), I'm wondering why itertools doesn't
> have a function to break an iterator up into N-sized chunks.

+1. In my experience the grouper recipe in the docs serve less as a
helpful example of how to use itertools and more as a thing to copy
paste. That's what modules are for.


-- Devin