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On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:48:12PM -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
> I have a long string (several Mbytes). I want to iterate over it in
> manageable chunks (say, 1 kbyte each).
>
> "this is a "
> "very long "
> "string"
>
> This seems like something itertools would do, but I don't see anything.
You could use io.StringIO (or StringIO.StringIO in Python 2.x):
from io import StringIO
big_str = 'x' * 10000000
stream = StringIO(big_str)
while True:
chunk = stream.read(1024)
if not chunk:
break
# process chunk
-[]z.
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