Newbie question about Re

[Fredrik Lundh]

MB <ritm at gnet.tn> wrote:
> I just want to split a string of n x (p characters) into a list of
> p_length strings using the Re module.

umm.  since you don't really care what's IN the string,
how about using string slicing instead?  it's not only
more pythonish, it's also faster (at least in this case):

def mysplit(s, p):
    out = []
    for i in range(0, len(s), p):
        out.append(s[i:i+p])
    return out

or, if you prefer one-liners:

    list = map(lambda i, s=s, p=p: s[i:i+p], range(0, len(s), p))

</F>

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