On May 8, 11:17 pm, Ross <ross.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a really long list that I would like segmented into smaller > lists. Let's say I had a list a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] and I > wanted to split it into groups of 2 or groups of 3 or 4, etc. Is there > a way to do this without explicitly defining new lists? If the above > problem were to be split into groups of 3, I've tried something like: > > start = 0 > stop = 3 > for i in range(len(a)): > segment = a[start:stop] > print segment > start += stop > stop += stop > > Unfortunately start and stop don't increment using this code. Ideally, > my outcome would be > [1,2,3] > [4,5,6] > [7,8,9] > [10,11,12]
There is also an iterator version here: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/303279 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
