[Python-Dev] [Python-ideas] itertools.chunks(iterable, size, fill=None) (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Thu Jul 5 18:09:44 CEST 2012

anatoly techtonik wrote:

Which is the 33th most voted Python question on SO -

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/312443/how-do-you-split-a-list-into-evenly-sized-chunks-in-python/312464 I am curious how you get that number. I do note that there are about 15 other Python SO questions that seem to be variations on the theme. There might be more if 'blocks' and 'groups' were searched for. It's easy: 1. Go http://stackoverflow.com/ 2. Search [python] 3. Click votes tab 4. Choose 30 per page at the bottom 5. Jump to the second page, there it is 4th from the top: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python?page=2&sort=votes&pagesize=30

Yes. I don't think this is particularly significant. Have a look at some of the questions with roughly the same number of votes:

#26 "How can I remove (chomp) a newline in Python?" 176 votes

#33 "How do you split a list into evenly sized chunks in Python?" 149 votes

#36 "Accessing the index in Python for loops" 144 votes

Being 33rd most voted question doesn't really mean much.

By the way, why is this discussion going to both python-dev and python-ideas?

-- Steven

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