Splitting a list into N parts of approximately equal length

Question

What is the best way to divide a list into roughly equal parts? For example, if the list has 7 elements and is split it into 2 parts, we want to get 3 elements in o

Answer 1

I tried most part of solutions, but they didn't work for my case, so I make a new function that work for most of cases and for any type of array:

import math

def chunkIt(seq, num):
    seqLen = len(seq)
    total_chunks = math.ceil(seqLen / num)
    items_per_chunk = num
    out = []
    last = 0

    while last < seqLen:
        out.append(seq[last:(last + items_per_chunk)])
        last += items_per_chunk

    return out