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From: Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 12:48:12 -0500
Subject: chunking a long string?
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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?

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Roy Smith
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