map, filter, reduce, zip, range, and.. slice?

[Eddie Corns]

Eyal Lotem <eyal at hyperroll.com> writes:

>Hey.  Recently, I've been heavily using functional-style programming in 
>Python, doing almost all of my text processing and so with complex nested 
>lambda clauses.  I love those, as they are so short, and seem to work with 
>a painless "debug" cycle, usually consisting of some missing reduce initial 
>value or so.

>To get to the point, I've almost always lacked a 'slice' function, that 
>slices sequences into smaller chunks.  For example:

>divide("Hello world!", 2) => ["He", "ll", "o ", "wo", "rl", "d!"]

It's a bit clumsy but how about:

[x[i:i+2] for i in range(0,len(x),2)]

Where x is your string.

Eddie