Rearrange a python list into n lists, by column
- by Ben R
Trying to solve this at this hour has gotten my mind into a tail-spin: I want to rearrange a list l into a list of n lists, where n is the number of columns.
e.g.,
l = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
n = 5
==> [[1,6][2,7][3,8][4][5]]
another example:
l = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
n = 4
==> [[1,5,9],[2,6,10],[3,7][4,8]
Can someone please help me out with an algorithm? Feel free to use any python awesomeness that's available; I'm sure theres some cool mechanism that's a good fit for this, i just can't think of it.
