Create sum clusters of a number sequence

[Pedroski55]

Still not quite sure exactly what you want, but maybe this will give you some ideas.

import re
numstring = '11111111113143111'
numlist = [int(numstring[i]) for i in range(len(numstring))]
total = sum(numlist)
print(f"The sum of the numbers is {total}")
if total % 8 == 0:
    print("We can make {sum(numlist)/8} groups with a sum total of 8 from the numbers.")

def count8(alist):    
    group = []
    for i in range(len(alist)):
        group.append(alist[i])
        if sum(group) > 8:
            del group[-1]            
        elif sum(group) == 8:
            return group

groups = []
while not sum(numlist) <= 8:
    mygroup = count8(numlist)
    print(mygroup)
    groups.append(mygroup)
    for m in mygroup:
        numstring2 = re.sub(str(m), 'X', numstring, count=1)
        numstring = numstring2
    numstring = numstring.replace('X', '')    
    numlist = [int(numstring[i]) for i in range(len(numstring))]
groups.append(numlist)

buran write Nov-24-2023, 07:43 AM:
Please, don't provide answers to homework questions without effort from OP