New submission from Chris Mellon:
One of the most common requests in c.l.p and #python is a way to break
an iterable up into some particular size chunks. For example, abcdef
- ab, cd, ef. It's pretty easy to write one, but there are a few
subtleties to it (like if you want padding or partial
Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
Sorry, this has been proposed and rejected previously. One of the
reasons was that the docs already have a C-speed recipe, grouper(),
that shows how to do it with padding and it is even simpler to do it
without padding using only zip() or izip(). Another
