chunking a long string?

[Roy Smith]

Oh my, it turns out I don't really need to do this after all, due to previously undiscovered uber-coolness in the tools I'm using!

My use case is that from inside of a Django view, I needed to retrieve a large file via a HTTP GET, and serve that back up, with some time delays inserted into the data stream.  Turns out, requests (uber-cool tool #1) provides a way to iterate over the content of a GET, and Django (uber-cool tool #2) provides a way to build a HttpResponse from the data in an iterator.  Epiphany!  I ended up with (essentially) this:

def stream_slow(request, song_id):
    """Streams a song, but does it extra slowly, for client testing                                                                             
    purposes.                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
    """
    def _slow_stream(r, chunk_size):
        for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size):
            yield chunk
            time.sleep(0.1)

    url = get_url(song_id)
    response = requests.get(url, stream=True)
    return HttpResponse(_slow_stream(response, 1024))




On Nov 8, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Nick Cash wrote:

>> I have a long string (several Mbytes).  I want to iterate over it in manageable chunks
> 
> This is a weirdly common question. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/312443/how-do-you-split-a-list-into-evenly-sized-chunks-in-python for several solutions.
> 
> It's been proposed to be added to itertools before, but rejected: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2012-July/015671.html and http://bugs.python.org/issue13095 
> 
> - Nick Cash 
> 


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Roy Smith
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