Splitting a string every 'n'

[Andrew Koenig]

Simon> What is the idiomatic way to split a string into a list
Simon> containing 'n' character substrings?  I normally do
Simon> something like:

Simon> while strng:
Simon>     substring = strng[:n]
Simon>     strng = strng[n:]
Simon>     <process substring>

How about this?

        for start in range(0, len(strng), n):
            substring = strng[start:start+n]
            <process substring>


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Andrew Koenig, ark at research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark