János Juhász wrote: > Dear Marty, Hi Janos,
>> ... Or, by extending Alan's solution ... >> >> def splitStringByN(s, n): >> for m in range(0, len(s), n): >> yield s[m:m+n] >> >> k = 'abcdefghi' >> list(splitStringByN(k, 2)) > > It seems to be the most readable solution for me. For completeness, one could also pull it out of the function def and use a generator expression directly. If I'm not mistaken, this would be more or less equivalent: k = 'abcdefghi' list((k[m:m+2] for m in range(0, len(k), 2))) > > >> As it turns out, this is similar to an ASPN Cookbook recipe contributed >> by Dmitry Vasiliev: >> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/302069 >> >> HTH, >> Marty > > Thanks for the link. No problem. Happy Holidays! Marty _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor