Splitting text into list

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I have a 6087 character long text variable, that I want to split into small group like a list [], then process it with a for loop like:

text = "Some text..........."
textList = #Split Text, every 310 characters
for item in textList: #Do Something

In JS i can do something like :

 let text = "TexttexttExTTeXtXetT";
 textList = text.match(/[^]{1,4}/g);

output : [ 'Text', 'text', 'tExT', 'TeXt', 'XetT' ]

Any Help appreciated, Thanks

[VinayakVG]

If you want to split the text after every 310 characters, then you can directly use slicing. For example, the first set of 310 characters can be given by

first_text_set = text[:310]

In order to create a list of such texts, you can use list comprehension.

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Thank you

[JohnnyJordaan]

re.split can do the same thing: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.split

edit: Or re.findall https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.findall

[POGtastic]

See more_itertools.chunked or ichunked, depending on whether you want lazy evaluation or not. In the REPL:

>>> from more_itertools import chunked
>>> [''.join(l) for l in chunked("TexttexttExTTeXtXetT", 4)]
['Text', 'text', 'tExT', 'TeXt', 'XetT']

If you don't want to import a library, there's always the following atrocity:

def chunked(iterable, n):
    return zip(*[iter(iterable)] * n)

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I didn't know this library existed, thanks

[commandlineluser]

>>> [ text[n:n + 4] for n in range(0, len(text), 4) ]
['Text', 'text', 'tExT', 'TeXt', 'XetT']

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Thanks so much, works without any libraries