--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/python/example/slice.py	Tue Jun 30 15:18:12 2015 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+"""
+slice a arbitrarily sized list
+"""
+
+# imports
+import argparse
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+__all__ = ['slice', 'main', 'Parser']
+
+def slice(container, n_chunks):
+    size = int(len(container)/(n_chunks-1))
+    retval = []
+    start = 0
+    for i in range(n_chunks-1):
+        retval.append(container[start:start+size])
+        start += size
+    retval.append(container[start:])
+    return retval
+
+class Parser(argparse.ArgumentParser):
+    """CLI option parser"""
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        kwargs.setdefault('description', __doc__)
+        argparse.ArgumentParser.__init__(self, **kwargs)
+        self.add_argument('N', type=int,
+                          help="number of chunks")
+        self.add_argument('-M', '--len', dest='length', type=int, default=29,
+                          help="length of list [DEFAULT: %(default)s]")
+        self.options = None
+
+    def parse_args(self, *args, **kw):
+        options = argparse.ArgumentParser.parse_args(self, *args, **kw)
+        self.validate(options)
+        self.options = options
+        return options
+
+    def validate(self, options):
+        """validate options"""
+
+def main(args=sys.argv[1:]):
+    """CLI"""
+
+    # parse command line options
+    parser = Parser()
+    options = parser.parse_args(args)
+
+    # generate list
+    seq = range(options.length)
+
+    # chunk list
+    output = slice(seq, options.N)
+
+    # print output
+    for chunk in output:
+        print (",".join([str(i) for i in chunk]))
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
+