Parsing string into fixed-width pieces

[Cliff Wells]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:44:45 -0600
Johnson, Brad wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to Python and have been combing the documentation and the message
> archive here for information on splitting a string into fix-width pieces.
 I
> assume their is an easy way to do this, I just don't seem to be able to
find
> it in the reference material.  Any suggestions?

Just use slices:
>>> s = "Hello, World"
>>> s[1]
'e'
>>> s[2:4]
'll'
>>> s[3:]
'lo, World'
>>> 

To split it up into 4 pieces of length 3 (assuming your lengths are all the
same):
>>> l = 3
>>> for slice in range(0, len(s), l):
...     print s[slice:slice + l]
... 
Hel
lo,
 Wo
rld
>>> 

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