Python. How to separate string with whitespace every nth character?

Question

How would you insert a whitespace into a string after every nth term. I need the output to still be a string, not a list.

This is what i would want it to look like:

message = ("xxxxxxxxxxxx")
output = ("xxxxx xxxxx xx") #E.g every 5 characters

*edit my question doesn't involve lists, only strings

Possible duplicate of [How do you split a list into evenly sized chunks in Python?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/312443/how-do-you-split-a-list-into-evenly-sized-chunks-in-python) — Eugene Soldatov, Oct 04 '15 at 11:49
You can produce string from list pretty simple: ' '.join(your_list) — Eugene Soldatov, Oct 04 '15 at 12:03
There is a possible way to do this, without using any lists, but i don't know how. — Cassie.K, Oct 04 '15 at 12:06
string in python is kind of list, you can operate on string like it's list. — Eugene Soldatov, Oct 04 '15 at 12:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 04 '15 at 22:36

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>>> message = "xxxxxxxxxxxx"
>>>' '.join([message[i:i+5] for i in range(0, len(message), 5)])
'xxxxx xxxxx xx

edited Oct 04 '15 at 22:36

Benjamin Hodgson

answered Oct 04 '15 at 11:46

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Provide additional information rather than a snippet of the code – Leb Oct 04 '15 at 16:45

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