Split list into n chunks python

Use numpy

>>> import numpy
>>> x = range(25)
>>> l = numpy.array_split(numpy.array(x),6)

or

>>> import numpy
>>> x = numpy.arange(25)
>>> l = numpy.array_split(x,6);

You can also use numpy.split but that one throws in error if the length is not exactly divisible.

answered Apr 16, 2015 at 15:34

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The solution(s) below have many advantages:

• Uses generator to yield the result.
• No imports.
• Lists are balanced (you never end up with 4 lists of size 4 and one list of size 1 if you split a list of length 17 into 5).

def chunks(l, n):
    """Yield n number of striped chunks from l."""
    for i in range(0, n):
        yield l[i::n]

The code above produces the below output for l = range(16) and n = 6:

[0, 6, 12]
[1, 7, 13]
[2, 8, 14]
[3, 9, 15]
[4, 10]
[5, 11]

If you need the chunks to be sequential instead of striped use this:

def chunks(l, n):
    """Yield n number of sequential chunks from l."""
    d, r = divmod(len(l), n)
    for i in range(n):
        si = (d+1)*(i if i < r else r) + d*(0 if i < r else i - r)
        yield l[si:si+(d+1 if i < r else d)]

Which for l = range(16) and n = 6 produces:

[0, 1, 2]
[3, 4, 5]
[6, 7, 8]
[9, 10, 11]
[12, 13]
[14, 15]

See this stackoverflow link for more information on the advantages of generators.

answered Feb 21, 2019 at 8:47

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If order doesn't matter:

def chunker_list(seq, size):
    return (seq[i::size] for i in range(size))

print(list(chunker_list([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 2)))
>>> [[1, 3, 5], [2, 4]]

print(list(chunker_list([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 3)))
>>> [[1, 4], [2, 5], [3]]

print(list(chunker_list([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 4)))
>>> [[1, 5], [2], [3], [4]]

print(list(chunker_list([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 5)))
>>> [[1], [2], [3], [4], [5]]

print(list(chunker_list([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 6)))
>>> [[1], [2], [3], [4], [5], []]

answered May 11, 2017 at 17:29

more_itertools.divide is one approach to solve this problem:

import more_itertools as mit


iterable = range(1, 26)
[list(c) for c in mit.divide(6, iterable)]

Output

[[ 1,  2,  3,  4, 5],                       # remaining item
 [ 6,  7,  8,  9],
 [10, 11, 12, 13],
 [14, 15, 16, 17],
 [18, 19, 20, 21],
 [22, 23, 24, 25]]

As shown, if the iterable is not evenly divisible, the remaining items are distributed from the first to the last chunk.

See more about the more_itertools library here.

answered Aug 28, 2017 at 23:55

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My answer is to simply use python built-in Slice:

# Assume x is our list which we wish to slice
x = range(1, 26)
# Assume we want to slice it to 6 equal chunks
result = []
for i in range(0, len(x), 6):
    slice_item = slice(i, i + 6, 1)
    result.append(x[slice_item])

# Result would be equal to 

[[0,1,2,3,4,5], [6,7,8,9,10,11], [12,13,14,15,16,17],[18,19,20,21,22,23], [24, 25]]

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answered Aug 18, 2020 at 10:18

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Try this:

from __future__ import division

import math

def chunked(iterable, n):
    """ Split iterable into ``n`` iterables of similar size

    Examples::
        >>> l = [1, 2, 3, 4]
        >>> list(chunked(l, 4))
        [[1], [2], [3], [4]]

        >>> l = [1, 2, 3]
        >>> list(chunked(l, 4))
        [[1], [2], [3], []]

        >>> l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
        >>> list(chunked(l, 4))
        [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9], [10]]

    """
    chunksize = int(math.ceil(len(iterable) / n))
    return (iterable[i * chunksize:i * chunksize + chunksize]
            for i in range(n))

It returns an iterator instead of a list for efficiency (I'm assuming you want to loop over the chunks), but you can replace that with a list comprehension if you want. When the number of items is not divisible by number of chunks, the last chunk is smaller than the others.

EDIT: Fixed second example to show that it doesn't handle one edge case

answered Jun 30, 2014 at 6:35

I came up with the following solution:

l = [x[i::n] for i in range(n)]

For example:

n = 6
x = list(range(26))

l = [x[i::n] for i in range(n)]
print(l)

Output:

[[0, 6, 12, 18, 24], [1, 7, 13, 19, 25], [2, 8, 14, 20], [3, 9, 15, 21], [4, 10, 16, 22], [5, 11, 17, 23]]

As you can see, the output consists from n chunks, which have roughly the same number of elements.

How it works?

The trick is to use list slice step (the number after two semicolons) and to increment the offset of stepped slicing. First, it takes every n element starting from the first, then every n element starting from the second and so on. This completes the task.

answered Apr 19 at 10:30

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Hint:

• x is the string to be split.

• k is number of chunks

  n = len(x)/k
  
  [x[i:i+n] for i in range(0, len(x), n)]
  

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answered Aug 17, 2018 at 17:48

MitendraMitendra

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Here take my 2 cents..

from math import ceil

size = 3
seq = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]

chunks = [
    seq[i * size:(i * size) + size]
    for i in range(ceil(len(seq) / size))
]

# [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9], [10, 11]]

answered Aug 30, 2019 at 18:51

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One way would be to make the last list uneven and the rest even. This can be done as follows:

>>> x
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25]
>>> m = len(x) // 6
>>> test = [x[i:i+m] for i in range(0, len(x), m)]
>>> test[-2:] = [test[-2] + test[-1]]
>>> test
[[1, 2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7, 8], [9, 10, 11, 12], [13, 14, 15, 16], [17, 18, 19, 20], [21, 22, 23, 24, 25]]

answered Jun 30, 2014 at 5:18

Sukrit KalraSukrit Kalra

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Assuming you want to divide into n chunks:

n = 6
num = float(len(x))/n
l = [ x [i:i + int(num)] for i in range(0, (n-1)*int(num), int(num))]
l.append(x[(n-1)*int(num):])

This method simply divides the length of the list by the number of chunks and, in case the length is not a multiple of the number, adds the extra elements in the last list.

answered Jun 30, 2014 at 5:54

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If you want to have the chunks as evenly sized as possible:

def chunk_ranges(items: int, chunks: int) -> List[Tuple[int, int]]:
    """
    Split the items by best effort into equally-sized chunks.
    
    If there are fewer items than chunks, each chunk contains an item and 
    there are fewer returned chunk indices than the argument `chunks`.

    :param items: number of items in the batch.
    :param chunks: number of chunks
    :return: list of (chunk begin inclusive, chunk end exclusive)
    """
    assert chunks > 0, \
        "Unexpected non-positive chunk count: {}".format(chunks)

    result = []  # type: List[Tuple[int, int]]
    if items <= chunks:
        for i in range(0, items):
            result.append((i, i + 1))
        return result

    chunk_size, extras = divmod(items, chunks)

    start = 0
    for i in range(0, chunks):
        if i < extras:
            end = start + chunk_size + 1
        else:
            end = start + chunk_size

        result.append((start, end))
        start = end

    return result

Test case:

def test_chunk_ranges(self):
    self.assertListEqual(chunk_ranges(items=8, chunks=1),
                         [(0, 8)])

    self.assertListEqual(chunk_ranges(items=8, chunks=2),
                         [(0, 4), (4, 8)])

    self.assertListEqual(chunk_ranges(items=8, chunks=3),
                         [(0, 3), (3, 6), (6, 8)])

    self.assertListEqual(chunk_ranges(items=8, chunks=5),
                         [(0, 2), (2, 4), (4, 6), (6, 7), (7, 8)])

    self.assertListEqual(chunk_ranges(items=8, chunks=6),
                         [(0, 2), (2, 4), (4, 5), (5, 6), (6, 7), (7, 8)])

    self.assertListEqual(
        chunk_ranges(items=8, chunks=7),
        [(0, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 5), (5, 6), (6, 7), (7, 8)])

    self.assertListEqual(
        chunk_ranges(items=8, chunks=9),
        [(0, 1), (1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 5), (5, 6), (6, 7), (7, 8)])

answered Feb 25, 2018 at 7:54

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In cases, where your list contains elements of different types or iterable objects that store values of different types (f.e. some elements are integers, and some are strings), if you use array_split function from numpy package to split it, you will get chunks with elements of same type:

import numpy as np

data1 = [(1, 2), ('a', 'b'), (3, 4), (5, 6), ('c', 'd'), ('e', 'f')]
chunks = np.array_split(data1, 3)
print(chunks)
# [array([['1', '2'],
#        ['a', 'b']], dtype='

If you would like to have initial types of elements in chunks after splitting of list, you can modify source code of array_split function from numpy package or use this implementation:

from itertools import accumulate

def list_split(input_list, num_of_chunks):
    n_total = len(input_list)
    n_each_chunk, extras = divmod(n_total, num_of_chunks)
    chunk_sizes = ([0] + extras * [n_each_chunk + 1] + (num_of_chunks - extras) * [n_each_chunk])
    div_points = list(accumulate(chunk_sizes))
    sub_lists = []
    for i in range(num_of_chunks):
        start = div_points[i]
        end = div_points[i + 1]
        sub_lists.append(input_list[start:end])
    return (sub_list for sub_list in sub_lists)

result = list(list_split(data1, 3))
print(result)
# [[(1, 2), ('a', 'b')], [(3, 4), (5, 6)], [('c', 'd'), ('e', 'f')]]

result = list(list_split(data2, 3))
print(result)
# [[1, 2, 'a', 'b'], [3, 4, 5, 6], ['c', 'd', 'e', 'f']]

answered Jan 20, 2020 at 20:23

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This solution is based on the zip "grouper" pattern from the Python 3 docs. The small addition is that if N does not divide the list length evenly, all the extra items are placed into the first chunk.

import itertools

def segment_list(l, N):
    chunk_size, remainder = divmod(len(l), N)
    first, rest = l[:chunk_size + remainder], l[chunk_size + remainder:]
    return itertools.chain([first], zip(*[iter(rest)] * chunk_size))

Example usage:

>>> my_list = list(range(10))
>>> segment_list(my_list, 2)
[[0, 1, 2, 3, 4], (5, 6, 7, 8, 9)]
>>> segment_list(my_list, 3)
[[0, 1, 2, 3], (4, 5, 6), (7, 8, 9)]
>>>

The advantages of this solution are that it preserves the order of the original list, and is written in a functional style that lazily evaluates the list only once when called.

Note that because it returns an iterator, the result can only be consumed once. If you want the convenience of a non-lazy list, you can wrap the result in list:

>>> x = list(segment_list(my_list, 2))
>>> x
[[0, 1, 2, 3, 4], (5, 6, 7, 8, 9)]
>>> x
[[0, 1, 2, 3, 4], (5, 6, 7, 8, 9)]
>>>

answered May 18, 2020 at 23:55

I would simply do (let's say you want n chunks)

import numpy as np

# convert x to numpy.ndarray
x = np.array(x)
l = np.array_split(x, n)

It works and it's only 2 lines.

Example:

# your list
x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25]
# amount of chunks you want
n = 6
x = np.array(x)
l = np.array_split(x, n)
print(l)

>> [array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]), array([6, 7, 8, 9]), array([10, 11, 12, 13]), array([14, 15, 16, 17]), array([18, 19, 20, 21]), array([22, 23, 24, 25])]

And if you want a list of list:

l = [list(elem) for elem in l]
print(l)

 >> [[1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8, 9], [10, 11, 12, 13], [14, 15, 16, 17], [18, 19, 20, 21], [22, 23, 24, 25]]

answered Jan 27, 2021 at 16:16

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x=[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25]
chunk = len(x)/6

l=[]
i=0
while i

answered Jun 30, 2014 at 5:21

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arr1=[-20, 20, -10, 0, 4, 8, 10, 6, 15, 9, 18, 35, 40, -30, -90, 99]
n=4
final = [arr1[i * n:(i + 1) * n] for i in range((len(arr1) + n - 1) // n )]
print(final)

Output:

[[-20, 20, -10, 0], [4, 8, 10, 6], [15, 9, 18, 35], [40, -30, -90, 99]]

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answered Nov 13, 2019 at 9:33

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This function will return the list of lists with the set maximum amount of values in one list (chunk).

def chuncker(list_to_split, chunk_size):
    list_of_chunks =[]
    start_chunk = 0
    end_chunk = start_chunk+chunk_size
    while end_chunk <= len(list_to_split)+chunk_size:
        chunk_ls = list_to_split[start_chunk: end_chunk]
        list_of_chunks.append(chunk_ls)
        start_chunk = start_chunk +chunk_size
        end_chunk = end_chunk+chunk_size    
    return list_of_chunks

Example:

ls = list(range(20))

chuncker(list_to_split = ls, chunk_size = 6)

output:

[[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11], [12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17], [18, 19]]

answered Oct 15, 2020 at 14:21

This accepts generators, without consuming it at once. If we know the size of the generator, the binsize can be calculated by max(1, size // n_chunks).

from time import sleep

def chunks(items, binsize):
    lst = []
    for item in items:
        lst.append(item)
        if len(lst) == binsize:
            yield lst
            lst = []
    if len(lst) > 0:
        yield lst


def g():
    for item in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]:
        print("accessed:", item)
        sleep(1)
        yield item


for a in chunks(g(), 3):
    print("chunk:", list(a), "\n")

answered May 6 at 15:53

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For people looking for an answer in python 3(.6) without imports.
x is the list to be split.
n is the length of chunks.
L is the new list.

n = 6
L = [x[i:i + int(n)] for i in range(0, (n - 1) * int(n), int(n))]

#[[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12], [13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18], [19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24], [25]]

answered Dec 20, 2018 at 12:23

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How do you split a list into evenly size chunks?

The easiest way to split list into equal sized chunks is to use a slice operator successively and shifting initial and final position by a fixed number.

How do you split items in a list in Python?

To split the elements of a list in Python: Use a list comprehension to iterate over the list. On each iteration, call the split() method to split each string. Return the part of each string you want to keep.

How do you split a list in Python 3?

The split() method returns a list of all the words in the string, using str as the separator (splits on all whitespace if left unspecified), optionally limiting the number of splits to num.