类似于其他提案，但不完全相同，我喜欢这样做，因为它简单易读:

it = iter([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])
for chunk in zip(it, it, it, it):
    print chunk

>>> (1, 2, 3, 4)
>>> (5, 6, 7, 8)

这样你就不会得到最后一部分。如果你想获取(9,None, None, None)作为最后一个块，只需使用itertools中的izip_longest。

修改自Python的itertools文档中的Recipes部分:

from itertools import zip_longest

def grouper(iterable, n, fillvalue=None):
    args = [iter(iterable)] * n
    return zip_longest(*args, fillvalue=fillvalue)

例子

grouper('ABCDEFG', 3, 'x')  # --> 'ABC' 'DEF' 'Gxx'

注意:在Python 2上使用izip_longest而不是zip_longest。

这个答案拆分了一个字符串列表，f.ex。达到符合pep8线长的要求:

def split(what, target_length=79):
    '''splits list of strings into sublists, each 
    having string length at most 79'''
    out = [[]]
    while what:
        if len("', '".join(out[-1])) + len(what[0]) < target_length:
            out[-1].append(what.pop(0))
        else:
            if not out[-1]: # string longer than target_length
                out[-1] = [what.pop(0)]
            out.append([])
    return out

使用

>>> split(['deferred_income', 'long_term_incentive', 'restricted_stock_deferred', 'shared_receipt_with_poi', 'loan_advances', 'from_messages', 'other', 'director_fees', 'bonus', 'total_stock_value', 'from_poi_to_this_person', 'from_this_person_to_poi', 'restricted_stock', 'salary', 'total_payments', 'exercised_stock_options'], 75)
[['deferred_income', 'long_term_incentive', 'restricted_stock_deferred'], ['shared_receipt_with_poi', 'loan_advances', 'from_messages', 'other'], ['director_fees', 'bonus', 'total_stock_value', 'from_poi_to_this_person'], ['from_this_person_to_poi', 'restricted_stock', 'salary', 'total_payments'], ['exercised_stock_options']]

要避免所有到列表的转换，请导入itertools和:

>>> for k, g in itertools.groupby(xrange(35), lambda x: x/10):
...     list(g)

生产:

... 
0 [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
1 [10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]
2 [20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29]
3 [30, 31, 32, 33, 34]
>>> 

我检查了groupby，它不转换为列表或使用len，所以我(认为)这将延迟每个值的解析，直到它实际使用。不幸的是，没有一个现成的答案(在这个时候)似乎提供了这种变化。

显然，如果你需要依次处理每一项，在g上嵌套一个for循环:

for k,g in itertools.groupby(xrange(35), lambda x: x/10):
    for i in g:
       # do what you need to do with individual items
    # now do what you need to do with the whole group

我对此特别感兴趣的是需要消耗一个生成器，以批量提交最多1000个更改到gmail API:

    messages = a_generator_which_would_not_be_smart_as_a_list
    for idx, batch in groupby(messages, lambda x: x/1000):
        batch_request = BatchHttpRequest()
        for message in batch:
            batch_request.add(self.service.users().messages().modify(userId='me', id=message['id'], body=msg_labels))
        http = httplib2.Http()
        self.credentials.authorize(http)
        batch_request.execute(http=http)

除非我遗漏了一些内容，否则没有提到以下使用生成器表达式的简单解决方案。它假设块的大小和数量都是已知的(通常情况下)，并且不需要填充:

def chunks(it, n, m):
    """Make an iterator over m first chunks of size n.
    """
    it = iter(it)
    # Chunks are presented as tuples.
    return (tuple(next(it) for _ in range(n)) for _ in range(m))

还有另一个答案，它的优点是:

1)容易理解 2)适用于任何可迭代对象，而不仅仅是序列(上面的一些答案会阻塞文件句柄) 3)不立即将数据块加载到内存 4)不会在内存中生成对同一迭代器的块长的引用列表 5)在列表的末尾没有填充填充值

话虽如此，我还没有计算它的时间，所以它可能比一些更聪明的方法慢，而且考虑到用例，一些优势可能是无关紧要的。

def chunkiter(iterable, size):
  def inneriter(first, iterator, size):
    yield first
    for _ in xrange(size - 1): 
      yield iterator.next()
  it = iter(iterable)
  while True:
    yield inneriter(it.next(), it, size)

In [2]: i = chunkiter('abcdefgh', 3)
In [3]: for ii in i:                                                
          for c in ii:
            print c,
          print ''
        ...:     
        a b c 
        d e f 
        g h 

Update: A couple of drawbacks due to the fact the inner and outer loops are pulling values from the same iterator: 1) continue doesn't work as expected in the outer loop - it just continues on to the next item rather than skipping a chunk. However, this doesn't seem like a problem as there's nothing to test in the outer loop. 2) break doesn't work as expected in the inner loop - control will wind up in the inner loop again with the next item in the iterator. To skip whole chunks, either wrap the inner iterator (ii above) in a tuple, e.g. for c in tuple(ii), or set a flag and exhaust the iterator.