list of elements

Question

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Iterate over a python sequence in multiples of n?

How to list elements like: ['abcd', 'efghi'] ?

Using the next:

test = map(chr, range(97, 123))
for i in test:
if len(el) == 2:
    break
while len(i) != 4:
    i = i + i
el.append(i)

it shows: ['aaaa', 'bbbb'] and it's correct in this case

Answer 1

Are you looking for list comprehensions?

>>> [''.join(test[i:i+4]) for i in range(0, len(test), 4)]
['abcd', 'efgh', 'ijkl', 'mnop', 'qrst', 'uvwx', 'yz']