[Tutor] inserting new lines in long strings while printing

[Mark Lawrence]

On 07/03/2012 01:26, Abhishek Pratap wrote:
> I have this one big string in python which I want to print to a file
> inserting a new line after each 100 characters. Is there a slick way to do
> this without looping over the string.  I am pretty sure there shud be
> something its just I am new to the lang.
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> Thanks!
> -Abhi
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Simplest way I can think of (untested).

onebigstring = 'nbgkasgf;sh;slfgh;asdgh;adsdhg fg...'
for i in range(0, len(onebigstring), 100): # for Python3, xrange for 
Python 2
     print onebigstring[i:i+100]

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Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.