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[Rod Haper]

Gold Fish wrote:

> What i am trying to do is that i got one biglist don't know how big is it 
> say list1 then i like to divided into some small sublists. These sublists 
> will have some elements in the biglist for example 3 elements maximum in 
> each sublist. So if the biglist got 10 elements then it'll be divided into 
> 4 sublists the first 3 will have 3 elements and the last one will have one 
> elements.
> 


[rodh at rodh rodh]$ python
Python 2.2.1 (#1, Apr 20 2002, 20:12:24)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> bigList = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j']
 >>> subLists = []
 >>> subListSize = 3
 >>> for i in range(0,len(bigList),subListSize):
...     subLists.append(bigList[i:i+subListSize])
...
 >>> subLists
[['a', 'b', 'c'], ['d', 'e', 'f'], ['g', 'h', 'i'], ['j']]
 >>>

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