Iteration over list slices

Question

I want an algorithm to iterate over list slices. Slices size is set outside the function and can differ.

In my mind it is something like:

for list_of_x         


        

Answer 1

Use a generator:

big_list = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
slice_length = 3
def sliceIterator(lst, sliceLen):
    for i in range(len(lst) - sliceLen + 1):
        yield lst[i:i + sliceLen]

for slice in sliceIterator(big_list, slice_length):
    foo(slice)

sliceIterator implements a "sliding window" of width sliceLen over the squence lst, i.e. it produces overlapping slices: [1,2,3], [2,3,4], [3,4,5], ... Not sure if that is the OP's intention, though.