Python string grouping?

Question

Basically, I print a long message but I want to group all of those words into 5 character long strings. For example "iPhone 6 isn’t simply bigger — it’s better in every way. Larger, yet dramatically thinner." I want to make that "iPhon 6isn' tsimp lybig ger-i t'sbe terri never yway. Large r,yet drama tical lythi nner. "

Answer 1

As suggested by @vaultah, this is achieved by splitting the string by a space and joining them back without spaces; then using a for loop to append the result of a slice operation to an array. An elegant solution is to use a comprehension.

text = "iPhone 6 isn’t simply bigger — it’s better in every way. Larger, yet dramatically thinner."
joined_text = ''.join(text.split())
splitted_to_six = [joined_text[char:char+6] for char in range(0,len(joined_text),6)]
' '.join(splitted_to_six)

I'm sure you can use the re module to get back dashes and apostrophes as they're meant to be

Answer 2

Simply do the following.

import re
sentence="iPhone 6 isn't simply bigger - it's better in every way. Larger, yet dramatically thinner."
sentence  = re.sub(' ', '', sentence)
count=0
new_sentence=''
for i in sentence:
    if(count%5==0 and count!=0):
        new_sentence=new_sentence+' '
    new_sentence=new_sentence+i
    count=count+1

print new_sentence

Output:

iPhon e6isn 'tsim plybi gger- it'sb etter ineve ryway .Larg er,ye tdram atica llyth inner .