Printing n elements per line in a list

[Sion Arrowsmith]

In article <m21wrh4ily.fsf at unique.fqdn>, Dan Sommers  <me at privacy.net> wrote:
>Perhaps not the prettiest, but I can't think of anything simpler to read
>six months from now:
>
>    counter = 0
>    for an_element in the_list:
>        print an_element,
>        counter = counter + 1
>        if counter == n:
>            print
>            counter = 0

for counter, an_element in enumerate(the_list):
    print an_element,
    if not (counter+1) % n:
        print
# Plus the final print fixed in an earlier follow-up:
if len(the_list) % n:
    print

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