Splitting an array into fixed-size chunks with python

If you're looking for a way to split data into fixed size chunks with python you're likely to run across this recipe from the itertools documentation:

def grouper(iterable, n, fillvalue=None):
    "Collect data into fixed-length chunks or blocks"
    # grouper('ABCDEFG', 3, 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx
    args = [iter(iterable)] * n
    return izip_longest(fillvalue=fillvalue, *args)

which certainly works, but why it works is less than obvious. In my case I was working with a small array where the data length was guaranteed to be a multiple of 4. I ended up using this, which is less sexy but more comprehendable:

[myarray[i:i+4] for i in xrange(0, len(myarray), 4)]