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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 Slice a Generator with islice in Python

Use itertools.islice to take the first n items from any iterable without materializing the whole sequence into a list.

itertools islice generators
Python
from itertools import islice


def first_n(iterable, n):
    """Return the first n items from an iterable."""
    return list(islice(iterable, n))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    numbers = range(10, 100)  # large iterable
    result = first_n(numbers, 5)
    print(result)  # [10, 11, 12, 13, 14]
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Comprehensions & generators easy

Take n items from an infinite Python generator

Uses itertools.islice to lazily take exactly n items from an infinite generator without exhausting it.

generators itertools islice
Python
from itertools import islice

def count_up_from(start=0):
    n = start
    while True:
        yield n
        n += 1

def take_n(generator, count):
    return list(islice(generator, count))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    gen = count_up_from(10)
    result = take_n(gen, 5)
    print(result)
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