Print 5 items in a row on separate lines for a list?

Question

I have a list of unknown number of items, let\'s say 26. let\'s say

list=[\'a\',\'b\',\'c\',\'d\',\'e\',\'f\',\'g\',\'h\',
\'i\',\'j\',\'k\',\'l\',\'m\',\'n\',\'         


        

Answer 1

start = 0
for item in list:
    if start < 4:
        thefile.write("%s" % item)
        start = start + 1
    else:                             #once the program wrote 4 items, write the 5th item and two linebreaks
        thefile.write("%s\n\n" % item)
        start = 0