from pprint import pprint
import json

with open("test.txt") as testFile:
    data = json.load(testFile)

#pprint(data)



def split_list(alist, wanted_parts=1):
    length = len(alist)
    return [ alist[i*length // wanted_parts: (i+1)*length // wanted_parts] 
             for i in range(wanted_parts) ]

A = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]

print split_list(A, wanted_parts=1)
print split_list(A, wanted_parts=2)
print split_list(A, wanted_parts=8)

testing = split_list(data, wanted_parts=len(data)/4+1)
print(len(testing))