spliting a list by nth items

[Ed Leafe]

On Sep 23, 2004, at 1:25 PM, Steven Bethard wrote:

> So the first list is simple:
>
> nth_items = items[::n]
>
> The second list is what's giving me trouble.  So far, the best I've
> come up with is:
>
> non_nth_items = list(items)
> del non_nth_items[::n]
>
> Is this the right way to do this?

nth_items = items[::n]
non_nth_items = [item for item in items if not in nth_items]

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