Splitting a string into groups of three characters

[Gregory Piñero]

I guess this question has already been thouroughly answered but here
is my version:

def split(string,n):
    outlist=[]
    for bottom in range(0,len(string),n):
        top=min(bottom+n,len(string))
        outlist.append(string[bottom:top])
    return outlist




On 8/8/05, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> lemon97 at gmail.com <lemon97 at gmail.com > wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a function that split a string into groups, containing an "x"
> > amount of characters?
> >
> > Ex.
> > TheFunction("Hello World",3)
> >
> > Returns:
> >
> > ['Hell','o W','orl','d']
> >
> >
> > Any reply would be truly appreciated.
> 
> Look into 're' module.  Essentially, split using '...', but return the
> separator as well.  Then, remove empty items.  In Bash shell, you would
> do
>     a="Hello World"
>     set -- "${a|?...}"          # extract '...' separators
>     pp_collapse                 # remove null items
>     printf '{%s}\n' "${@}"
> 
> Translating to Python is left as homework.
> 
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