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Lists & loops easy

How to Split a List into Chunks in Python

Split a list into fixed-size sublists using a simple list comprehension with slicing.

list slicing chunking
Python
def chunk_list(lst, size):
    """Split a list into sublists of given size."""
    return [lst[i:i + size] for i in range(0, len(lst), size)]


if __name__ == "__main__":
    sample = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
    print(chunk_list(sample, 3))
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Functions & basics easy

How to Group a List into Chunks in Python

Split a list into smaller groups of a fixed size using a reusable function with a default parameter.

list slicing functions
Python
def make_groups(numbers, group_size=2):
    """Splits a list into smaller groups of a given size."""
    groups = []
    for i in range(0, len(numbers), group_size):
        groups.append(numbers[i:i + group_size])
    return groups


if __name__ == "__main__":
    data = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

    print("Default size…
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Files & data medium

Chunk Large File Upload Simulation by Blocks in Python

A Python script reads a large binary file in fixed-size chunks and simulates a block-by-block upload with per-chunk SHA256 hashing.

file i/o chunking hashing
Python
import os
import hashlib
from pathlib import Path


def read_file_in_chunks(file_path, chunk_size=8196):
    """Yield chunks of a file as bytes."""
    with open(file_path, 'rb') as f:
        while chunk := f.read(chunk_size):
            yield chunk


def simulate_chunked_upload(file_path, chunk_size=8196):
    """S…
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Files & data easy

How to Split a Large File into Fixed-Size Parts in Python

Splits any binary or text file into multiple part files of a fixed byte size using Python's standard library.

file-splitting binary chunking
Python
import os
import math

def split_file(filepath, chunk_size_bytes):
    """Split a file into parts of fixed size (bytes). Creates part files in same directory."""
    filepath = os.path.abspath(filepath)
    basename = os.path.basename(filepath)
    file_size = os.path.getsize(filepath)
    num_parts = math.ceil(file_s…
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Files & data medium

Read Parquet-Like Columnar CSV Chunks in Python

A Python generator that reads a CSV file column-by-column, yielding dictionary chunks where each key points to a list of values—mirroring how Parquet stores data columnar.

csv columnar generator
Python
```python
import csv
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Iterator, List

def read_parquet_like_columnar(csv_path: str, column_names: List[str], chunk_size: int = 2) -> Iterator[dict]:
    """Read CSV data in columnar chunks, similar to how parquet stores columns."""
    csv_file = Path(csv_path)
    with csv_f…
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Comprehensions & generators easy

Batch Rows in Chunks with a Generator in Python

Group a list of row dicts into fixed-size chunks using a generator that yields one slice per call.

generators chunking database
Python
from typing import Iterator, List


def batch_rows(rows: List[dict], batch_size: int) -> Iterator[List[dict]]:
    for i in range(0, len(rows), batch_size):
        yield rows[i:i + batch_size]


if __name__ == "__main__":
    sample_rows = [
        {"id": 1, "name": "Alice"},
        {"id": 2, "name": "Bob"},
      …
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Comprehensions & generators easy

Chunk an Iterable into Batches with a Generator in Python

Yield fixed-size batches from any iterable lazily using itertools.islice inside a generator function.

generators iterators itertools
Python
from itertools import islice

def chunked(iterable, size):
    iterator = iter(iterable)
    while True:
        batch = list(islice(iterator, size))
        if not batch:
            break
        yield batch

if __name__ == "__main__":
    data = range(10)
    for batch in chunked(data, 3):
        print(batch)
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Comprehensions & generators easy

How to Split Data into Chunks and Use Generators in Python

Split a list into fixed-size chunks with a list comprehension and square even numbers lazily with a generator expression.

comprehensions generators chunking
Python
def split_numbers(data, chunk_size):
    return [data[i:i + chunk_size] for i in range(0, len(data), chunk_size)]


def square_even_numbers(numbers):
    return (n ** 2 for n in numbers if n % 2 == 0)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    sample_data = list(range(1, 21))
    chunks = split_numbers(sample_data, 5)
    print…
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AI & LLM integration patterns easy

How to Chunk a Long Document for RAG Retrieval in Python

Split text into overlapping chunks at sentence boundaries using a custom Python function suitable for RAG retrieval pipelines.

rag text-chunking nlp
Python
import re
from pathlib import Path

def chunk_document(text, chunk_size=500, overlap=100):
    """Split text into overlapping chunks suitable for RAG retrieval."""
    # Normalize whitespace
    text = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', text).strip()
    
    chunks = []
    start = 0
    while start < len(text):
        end = min(s…
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Data pipelines & processing medium

Map Partition Over Chunks in Python with Multiprocessing and Mock

Process data in chunks across multiple CPU cores using multiprocessing Pool.map, and mock the chunk function to test partitioning behavior without heavy computation.

multiprocessing chunking parallel
Python
from multiprocessing import Pool
from unittest.mock import patch, Mock

def process_chunk(chunk):
    return [x * x for x in chunk]

def map_partition_over_chunks(data, chunk_size, process_func=process_chunk):
    chunks = [data[i:i + chunk_size] for i in range(0, len(data), chunk_size)]
    with Pool() as pool:
     …
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