"Peter Otten" <__peter__ at web.de> wrote in message news:eol9ac$v3l$02$1 at news.t-online.com... > I like > > >>> items = range(9) > >>> N = 3 > >>> zip(*[iter(items)]*N) > [(0, 1, 2), (3, 4, 5), (6, 7, 8)] Except that it is considered implementation dependent: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-February/307550.html Alan Isaac