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Re: chunking a long string?

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On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:48:12PM -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
> I have a long string (several Mbytes).  I want to iterate over it in
> manageable chunks (say, 1 kbyte each).
> 
> "this is a "
> "very long "
> "string"
> 
> This seems like something itertools would do, but I don't see anything.

You could use io.StringIO (or StringIO.StringIO in Python 2.x):

    from io import StringIO
    big_str = 'x' * 10000000
    stream = StringIO(big_str)
    while True:
        chunk = stream.read(1024)
        if not chunk:
            break
        # process chunk

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