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>>>>> f =3D lambda x, n, acc=3D[]: f(x[n:], n, acc+[(x[:n])]) if x else acc

> Packing tail recursion into one line is bad for both understanding and=20
> refactoring. Use better names and a docstring gives
>=20
> def group(seq, n):
>    'Yield from seq successive disjoint slices of length n plus the=20
> remainder'
>    for i in range(0,len(seq), n):
>      yield seq[i:i+]
>=20
> --=20
> Terry Jan Reedy

Thank you all very much for this incredible help!  The original code=20
now makes sense, and I was thrilled to see better and more efficient=20
ways of doing this.  Thanks for taking the time to share your=20
thoughts as well as the excellent detail everyone shared=E2=80=A6  I really=
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appreciate it!

Jay