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I'm very new to programming. I need to create a function that takes any string and a fill character and returns a list of 8 character strings.
For example:

>>>segmentString("Hello, World!","-")
['Hello, W', 'orld!---']

As you can see, the string has 13 characters. The function splits into 2 strings, where the first contains 8 characters, and the second contains 5 characters and 3 fill characters.

So far, I've figured out how to do this for strings less than 8 characters, but not for more than 8 characters, where the string is split up, which is what I am stuck on.

def segmentString(s1,x):
 while len(s1)<8:
 s1+=x
 return s1

How do you split a string up?

You can use a slightly modified version of this chunking recipe:

def chunks(L, n, char):
 for i in range(0, len(L), n):
 yield L[i:i + n].ljust(n, char)

res = list(chunks('Hello, World!', 8, '-'))

['Hello, W', 'orld!---']

str.ljust performs the necessary padding.

A slightly modified version of @jpp's answer is to first pad the string with your fill character, so that the length is cleanly divisible by 8:

def segmentString(s, c):
 s = s + c * (8 - len(s) % 8)
 return [s[i:i+8] for i in range(0, len(s), 8)]

>>> segmentString("Hello, World!","-")
['Hello, W', 'orld!---']

And if you needed the size to be variable, you can just add in a size argument:

def segmentString(s, c, size):
 s = s + c * (size - len(s) % size)
 return [s[i:i+size] for i in range(0,len(s),size)]

>>> segmentString("Hello, World!","-",4)
['Hell', 'o, W', 'orld', '!---']

Yet another possibility:

def segmentString(s1, x):
 ret_list = 
 while len(s1) > 8:
 ret_list.append(s1[:8])
 s1 = s1[8:]
 if len(s1) > 0:
 ret_list.append(s1 + x*(8-len(s1)))
 return ret_list

I am also new to programming but I think you could use this...

Word = "Hello, World!---"
print([Word[i:i+x] for i in range(0, len(Word), x)])

Just change x to whatever value you want..
Check out https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-string-split/amp/
Hope it helps.

Here is the simple answer that you can understand that solves your problem with few simple ifs:

a= 'abcdefghijklmdddn'

def segmentString(stuff):
 c=
 i=0
 hold=""

 for letter in stuff:
 i+=1
 hold+=letter

 if i%8==0:
 c.append(hold)
 hold=""

 c.append(hold)

 if hold=="":
 print(c)

 else:
 if hold==c[-1]:
 print(c)

 else:
 c.append(hold)
 print(c)