easy string formating question

[Slawomir Nowaczyk]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:39:41 -0700
f pemberton <fpemberton133 at yahoo.com> wrote:

#> I have kind of an interesting string, it looks like a couple hundred
#> letters bunched together with no spaces. Anyway,  i'm trying to put a
#> "?" and a  (\n) newline after every 100th character of the string and
#> then write that string to a file. How would I go about doing that? Any
#> help would be much appreciated.

In addition to all the other ideas, you can try using StringIO

import StringIO
s = '1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
size = 10  # 100
input = StringIO.StringIO(s)
while input.tell()<input.len:     # is there really no better way to check for exhausted StringIO ?
    print input.read(size)+"?\n",
    # instead of print just write to a file or accumulate the result


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