set partitioning

[aaronwmail-usenet at yahoo.com]

Something like this, or am I missing something?

def partition(List, n, m, k):
     if n!=m*k:
         raise "sorry, too many or too few elts"
     D = {}
     for x in List:
          D[x] = 1
     if len(D)!=n:
         raise "sorry (2) you lied about the number"
     List2 = D.keys()
     result = []
     for i in range(m):
         result.append( List2[i*k: i*k+k] )
     return result
?

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