Split a string by length

[Peter Otten]

Pascal wrote:

> How can I do to simulate this way:
> 'aabbcc'.split(2) -> ['aa', 'bb', 'cc']
> I tried with a 'slice' but this didn't run:
> [item for item in 'aabbcc'[::2]] -> ['a', 'b', 'c']

>>> def chunks(s, chunklen):
...     for i in range(0, len(s), chunklen):
...             yield s[i:i+chunklen]
...
>>> list(chunks("aabbcc", 2))
['aa', 'bb', 'cc']
>>> list(chunks("aabbc", 2))
['aa', 'bb', 'c']
>>>

Peter