chunking a long string?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 08/11/2013 17:48, Roy Smith wrote:
> I have a long string (several Mbytes).  I want to iterate over it in manageable chunks (say, 1 kbyte each).  For (a small) example, if I started with "this is a very long string", and I wanted 10 character chunks, I should get:
>
> "this is a"
> "very long"
> "string"
>
> This seems like something itertools would do, but I don't see anything.  Is there something, or do I just need to loop and slice (and worry about getting all the edge conditions right) myself?
>
> ---
> Roy Smith
> roy at panix.com
>

Any good to you http://pythonhosted.org/more-itertools/api.html ?

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Mark Lawrence