Dynamically making lists?

[Brian Lee]

Bill Witherspoon wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> If I have a list ->
> 
> L = ['one', 'two', 'three',......,'one thousand']
> 
> and I want to split this into several lists with (say) two elements
> each ->
> 
> m = ['one', 'two']
> n = ['three', 'four']
> o = ['five', 'six'}
> ......
> zz = ['nine hundred ninety nine', 'one thousand']
> 
> How would I do this?  I don't know how many elements are in L before
> I run the program.
> 
> It seems like I have to generate variable names on the fly?
> Maybe there's something simple I'm missing here.
> 
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> TIA,
> Bill.

How about to start from this code and edit for your own use.

for x in range(len(L) / 2):
  tmp[x] = [L[x * 2], L[x * 2+ 1]]

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