[Python-ideas] Add a .chunks() method to sequences

[Nick Coghlan]

On 2 May 2017 at 22:10,  <robert.hoelzl at posteo.de> wrote:
> Steven D’Aprano was giving me an idea (in the bytes.hex delimiter
> discussion):
>
> I had very often the use case that I want to split sequences into
> subsequences of same size.
>
> How about adding a chunks() and rchunks() function to sequences:
>
> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7].chunks(3) => [[1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7]]
>
> "1234“.chunks(2) => [“12“, “34“]
>
> (this could then be used to emulate stevens proposal: “
> “.join(“1234567“.chunks(2)) => “12 34 56 7“)

While there may be a case for a "splitslices()" method on strings for
text formatting purposes, that case is weaker for generic sequences -
we don't offer general purpose equivalents to split() or partition()
either.

That said, the possibility of a sequence or container focused
counterpart to "itertools" has come up before, and it's conceivable
such an algorithm might find a home there.

Cheers,
Nick.

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