Unfortunately, as far as I know, there is no chunks methods in the standard library. But this makes things rather neat.

from itertools import chain, islice

def chunks(iterable, n):
   "chunks(ABCDE,2) => AB CD E"
   iterable = iter(iterable)
   while True:
       yield chain([next(iterable)], islice(iterable, n-1))

l = 100
file_large = 'large_file.txt'
with open(file_large) as bigfile:
    for i, lines in enumerate(chunks(bigfile, l)):
        file_split = '{}.{}'.format(file_large, i)
        with open(file_split, 'w') as f:
            f.writelines(lines)

Unfortunately, as far as I know, there is no chunks methods in the standard library. But this makes things rather neat.

from itertools import chain, islice

def chunks(iterable, n):
   "chunks(ABCDE,2) => AB CD E"
   iterable = iter(iterable)
   while True:
       yield chain([next(iterable)], islice(iterable, n-1))

l = ...
file_large = 'large_file.txt'
with open(file_large) as bigfile:
    for i, lines in enumerate(chunks(bigfile, l)):
        file_split = '{}.{}'.format(file_large, i)
        with open(file_split, 'w') as f:
            f.writelines(lines)