Ways to slice a string?

Question

I have a string, example:

s = \"this is a string, a\"

Where a \',\' (comma) will always be the 3rd to the last character, aka

Answer 1

To slice a string of arbitrary length into multiple equal length slices of arbitrary length you could do

def slicer(string, slice_length):
    return [string[i:i + slice_length]
            for i in xrange(0, len(string), slice_length)]

If slice_length does not divide exactly into len(string) then there will be a single slice at the end of the list that holds the remainder.