>>> from functools import reduce
>>> from operator import add
>>> from itertools import izip
>>> x = iter('1234567890')
>>> [reduce(add, tup) for tup in izip(x, x)]
['12', '34', '56', '78', '90']
>>> x = iter('1234567890')
>>> [reduce(add, tup) for tup in izip(x, x, x)]
['123', '456', '789']

一如既往，为那些喜欢一句俏皮话的人

n = 2  
line = "this is a line split into n characters"  
line = [line[i * n:i * n+n] for i,blah in enumerate(line[::n])]

>>> line = '1234567890'
>>> n = 2
>>> [line[i:i+n] for i in range(0, len(line), n)]
['12', '34', '56', '78', '90']

你可以使用itertools中的grouper()方法:

Python 2. x:

from itertools import izip_longest    

def grouper(iterable, n, fillvalue=None):
    "Collect data into fixed-length chunks or blocks"
    # grouper('ABCDEFG', 3, 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx
    args = [iter(iterable)] * n
    return izip_longest(fillvalue=fillvalue, *args)

Python 3. x:

from itertools import zip_longest

def grouper(iterable, n, fillvalue=None):
    "Collect data into fixed-length chunks or blocks"
    # grouper('ABCDEFG', 3, 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx"
    args = [iter(iterable)] * n
    return zip_longest(*args, fillvalue=fillvalue)

这些函数是内存高效的，并且适用于任何可迭代对象。

为了完整，你可以用regex来完成:

>>> import re
>>> re.findall('..','1234567890')
['12', '34', '56', '78', '90']

对于奇数个字符，你可以这样做:

>>> import re
>>> re.findall('..?', '123456789')
['12', '34', '56', '78', '9']

你也可以这样做，简化正则表达式为更长的块:

>>> import re
>>> re.findall('.{1,2}', '123456789')
['12', '34', '56', '78', '9']

如果字符串很长，可以使用re.finditer逐块生成。

使用PyPI中的更多itertools:

>>> from more_itertools import sliced
>>> list(sliced('1234567890', 2))
['12', '34', '56', '78', '90']