Cleaner idiom for text processing?

[Peter Otten]

Michele Simionato wrote:

>>>> import itertools
>>>> def chop(it, n):
> ...     tup = (iter(it),)*n
> ...     return itertools.izip(*tup)
> ...
>>>> list(chop([1,2,3,4,5,6],3))
> [(1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6)]
>>>> list(chop([1,2,3,4,5,6],2))
> [(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)]
>>>> list(chop([1,2,3,4,5,6],1))
> [(1,), (2,), (3,), (4,), (5,), (6,)]
> 
> (I don't remember if this is already in itertools ... )

I don't think so. IMO the itertools examples page would be a better place
for the above than the cookbook. If an example had to be removed in
exchange, that would be iteritems(). Raymond, are you looking?

Peter