array_chunk in Python
def chunk(seq, chunk_size): “”"Split a sequence into chunks.
>>> chunk(range(10),2)
[[0, 1], [2, 3], [4, 5], [6, 7], [8, 9]]
The final chunk may have fewer than chunk_size elements.
>>> chunk(range(10),3)
[[0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8], [9]]
"""
return [
seq[offset:offset+chunk_size]
for offset in xrange(0, len(seq), chunk_size)
]
The recipes page for itertools has a function that does this and will pad the last group to the correct length. Second from the bottom http://docs.python.org/lib/itertools-recipes.html
Excellent. I knew the functionality had to exist somewhere, but the PHP noise rendered my google searches useless.