Splitting a string every 'n'

[Huaiyu Zhu]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>    Huaiyu> To work with any int n, change to one of these
>
>    Huaiyu> rex = re.compile('.{,%s}'%n, re.DOTALL)  # keeps remainder segment
>
>I think you want {1,%s}.  Note the spurious empty string at the end if at
>least one character isn't required:

Yes, you're right.  Teaches me to test before post.

Huaiyu