Slice a binary number into groups of five digits

Question

Is there any neat trick to slice a binary number into groups of five digits in python?

\'00010100011011101101110100010111\' => [\'00010\', \'00110\', \'10111\', ... ]

Answer 1

How about using a regular expression?

>>> import re
>>> re.findall('.{1,5}', '00010100011011101101110100010111')
['00010', '10001', '10111', '01101', '11010', '00101', '11']

This will break though if your input string contains newlines, that you want in the grouping.