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From: Nick Cash <nick.cash@npcinternational.com>
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Subject: RE: chunking a long string?
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> I have a long string (several Mbytes).  I want to iterate over it in mana=
geable chunks

This is a weirdly common question. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3=
12443/how-do-you-split-a-list-into-evenly-sized-chunks-in-python for severa=
l solutions.

It's been proposed to be added to itertools before, but rejected: https://m=
ail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2012-July/015671.html and http://bugs=
.python.org/issue13095=20

- Nick Cash=20