"Emil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> I want to be capable of converting a string into a list where all
> the items,
> in the list, have a fixed length not equal to 1
You can use list slicing to do this.
Combine with the stepsize parameter of the range function
> k = 'abcdefgh' and I want the fixed length for all the the
> items to be 2 then the list would look like ['ab', 'cd', 'ef, 'gh'].
k = 'abcdefgh'
new = []
for n in range(0,len(k),2): # 2=stepsize
new.append(k[n:n+2]) # use slice
print new
As a list comprehension that would be:
new = [k[n:n+2] for n in range(0,len(k),2)]
And as a more general function:
def splitStringByN(s,n):
return [s[m:m+n] for m in range(0,len(s),n)]
Should work,
HTH,
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Alan Gauld
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