Hi Chris, Thank you very much, that was exactly what I needed.
Eric On Jun 13, 9:29 am, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 13, 4:15 pm, ericdaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm new to Python and I need to do the following: > > > from this: s = "978654321" > > to this : ["978", "654", "321"] > > > Any help is appreciated > > > Thanks, > > > Eric > > What you could do is iterate over the string appending the characters > 1 at a time to a new string and when you hit the point you want to > place it in your output list you can append it there and clear the > temp string eg. > > length = 3 > tmp_string = '' > results = [] > for i,character in enumerate(s): > if not (i+1) % length: > results.append(tmp_string) > else: > tmp_string += character > > I don't like this approach as you create to many temp items and fairly > ugly. > What you could do is to rather use slicing to build it. > > results = [] > length = 3 > for i in xrange(0,len(s),length): > results.append(s[i:i+length]) > > And then the neatest approach would be to put that into a list > comprehension instead > > s = "978654321" > step = 3 > output = [s[start:start+step] for start in xrange(0,len(s),step)] > > Those are just some ways to do it. > Hope that helps -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
