Changing a string into block of five python

Question

How do I change a string so that every 5 characters there will be a space in between? However, I do not wish to have space at the beginning or at the end.

for example

"Yohomeyoverstack" will be "Yohom eyove rstac k"

"two"  will be "two"

Another version of the ["split a list into evenly sized chunks"](https://stackoverflow.com/q/312443/8881141) question. — Mr. T, Jul 19 '18 at 07:51

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '18 at 06:08

1

Using slicing

Ex:

s = "Yohomeyoverstack"
print( " ".join([s[i:i+5] for i in range(0, len(s), 5)]) )

Output:

Yohom eyove rstac k

answered Jul 19 '18 at 06:08

Rakesh

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But what if the string have white spaces in it. Like `s = "Yohomeyov erstack"`. The output will have spaces in the begining and end – Sreeram TP Jul 19 '18 at 06:11

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '18 at 06:12

You can do this with the help of slicing.

data = "Yohomeyoverstack"

stripped = "".join(data.split())

splitted = " ".join([stripped[i:i+5] for i in range(0, len(stripped), 5)])

print(splitted)

This solution will work even if there are whitespaces in the string

Changing a string into block of five python

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