getting n items at a time from a generator

[Tim Roberts]

Kugutsumen <kugutsumen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I am relatively new the python language and I am afraid to be missing
>some clever construct or built-in way equivalent to my 'chunk'
>generator below.

I have to say that I have found this to be a surprisingly common need as
well.  Would this be an appropriate construct to add to itertools?
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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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