> Argh, embarassment on my part due to incomplete spec.
> movelist is used to store a list of chess moves and
> splitting it up in this way is so it can be printed in a
> space that is 3 lines high but quite wide. Thus the way
> the list grows as it is appended to in chopupmoves is
> intended.
Perhaps the following was what you mean?
def chop(movelist, columns=3):
result = []
itemsInColumn = (columns+len(movelist)-1)/columns
for i in range(columns):
result.append(movelist[
i*itemsInColumn:
(i+1)*itemsInColumn])
return result
# exercise the function:
for i in xrange(30):
moves = range(1,i+1)
print chop(moves)
print chop(moves, 4)
This is a fairly generic columnization routine that will
track overflow nicely.
-tkc
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