> I have a long string (several Mbytes). I want to iterate over it in > manageable chunks (say, 1 kbyte each).
You don't mention if the string is in memory or on disk. If it's in memory: >>> for i in range(0, len(s), 10): ... print repr(s[i:i+10]) ... 'this is a ' 'very long ' 'string' If your string is on disk, just loop over an open file object, reading your chunk size every pass of the loop. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
