better way to write this function

[Peter Otten]

Ricardo Aráoz wrote:

> Peter Otten wrote:

>> You can use slicing:
>> 
>>>>> def chunks(items, n):
>> ...     return [items[start:start+n] for n in range(0, len(items)-n+1, n)]
>> ... 
>>>>> for i in range(1,10):
>> ...     print chunks(range(5), i)
>> ... 
>> [[0], [1], [2], [3], [4]]
>> [[0, 1], [2, 3]]
>> [[0, 1, 2]]
>> [[0, 1, 2, 3]]
>> [[0, 1, 2, 3, 4]]
>> []
>> []
>> []
>> []
> 
> 
> This won't work(e.g. you don't define "start", you change the value of n
> through the loop). I guess you meant :
> 
> def chunks(items, n) :
>     return [items[i:i+n] for i in range(0, len(items)-n+1, n)]

Indeed; I'm still wondering how I managed to copy'n'paste the version with
the typo together with the demo of the correct one.

Peter