Kelie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > This function does I what I want. But I'm wondering if there is an > easier/better way. To be honest, I don't have a good understanding of > what "pythonic" means yet. > > def divide_list(lst, n): > """Divide a list into a number of lists, each with n items. Extra > items are > ignored, if any.""" > cnt = len(lst) / n > rv = [[None for i in range(n)] for i in range(cnt)] > for i in range(cnt): > for j in range(n): > rv[i][j] = lst[i * n + j] > return rv > > Thanks!
See the last recipe from: http://docs.python.org/lib/itertools-recipes.html. It's not doing quite the same thing, but gives an illustration of one way to approach this sort of thing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
