Splitting a list

[Jeff Epler]

Here's my version as a generator function:
    def split(it, elem):
        l = []
        for i in it:
            if i == elem:
                yield l
                l = []
            else:
                l.append(i)
        yield l

>>> list(split(" a b c ", " "))
[[], ['a'], ['b'], ['c'], []]
>>> " a b c ".split(" ")
['', 'a', 'b', 'c', '']
>>> l = [1,2,3,-1,4,5,-1,8,9]
>>> list(split(l, -1))
[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5], [8, 9]]

Jeff
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