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Splitting A List And Assigning From Each Group

Splitting a list and assigning data from each group in a round robin way#

Sometimes you need to split a list into a numer of groups and assign data to each one. round robin splitting python. Splitting a List into chunks in Python.

Use itertools.cycle

from itertools import cycle

ids = [1, 2, 3]
id_cycle = cycle(ids)

for item in range(10):
    print(next(id_cycle))

Running the above you get:

$ python item.py 
1
2
3
1
2
3
1
2
3
1

It is an infinite iterator.