spliting a list by nth items

[Michael Hoffman]

Larry Bates wrote:

> I believe you meant somthing like:
> 
> non_nth_items = [items[i-1] for i in range(1,len(items)-1) if i % n]
> 
> I don't think the "if x % n" won't work on his list of items

D'oh! I wasn't thinking--the test list of items I used was 
range(something), so of course it worked.

What I meant <wink> was:

non_nth_items = [x for index, x in enumerate(items) if index % n]

Thanks for the correction.
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Michael Hoffman