[Tutor] inserting new lines in long strings while printing

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 05:26:26PM -0800, Abhishek Pratap wrote:
> I have this one big string in python which I want to print to a file
> inserting a new line after each 100 characters. Is there a slick way to do
> this without looping over the string.  I am pretty sure there shud be
> something its just I am new to the lang.

>>> s = "a"*100
>>> print '\n'.join(s[i:i+10] for i in range(0, len(s), 10))
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa


-- 
Steven