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splitting a list of arbitrary size into only roughly N-equal parts
How do you split a list into evenly sized chunks in Python?
I need to create a function that will split a list into a list of list, each containing an equal number of items (or as equal as possible).
e.g.
def split_lists(mainlist, splitcount):
....
mylist = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
split_list(mylist,2)
will return a list of two lists of three elements - [[1,2,3][4,5,6]]
.
split_list(mylist,3)
will return a list of three lists of two elements.
split_list(mylist,4)
will return a list of two lists of two elements and two lists of one element.
I don't care which elements appear in which list, just that the list is divided up as evenly as possible.
numpy.split does this already:
Examples:
>>> mylist = np.array([1,2,3,4,5,6])
split_list(mylist,2) will return a list of two lists of three elements - [[1,2,3][4,5,6]].
>>> np.split(mylist, 2)
[array([1, 2, 3]), array([4, 5, 6])]
split_list(mylist,3) will return a list of three lists of two elements.
>>> np.split(mylist, 3)
[array([1, 2]), array([3, 4]), array([5, 6])]
split_list(mylist,4) will return a list of two lists of two elements and two lists of one element.
You may probably want to add an exception capture for the cases when the remainder of length(mylist)/n is not 0:
>>> np.split(mylist, 4)
ValueErrorTraceback (most recent call last)
----> 1 np.split(mylist, 4)
...
ValueError: array split does not result in an equal division
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