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+def nearly_even_split(idx,nblocks,strict=False) :
+    """ splits a list of indexes idx into nblocks
+    if len(idx) can not be integer divided into nblocks
+    a further, shorter block is appended to accomodate the remainder samples
+
+    keyword: strict
+             if True the array the remainder is appended at the last block
+
+    Example:
+      x=np.arange(113)
+      out=nearly_even_split(x,7)
+      print(len(out))
+      > 8
+      # this is a test to check proper partition
+      print(abs(np.concatenate(out)-x).ptp())
+      > 0
+      print(out)
+      [array([ 0,  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]),
+       array([16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31]),
+       array([32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47]),
+       array([48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63]),
+       array([64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79]),
+       array([80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95]),
+       array([ 96,  97,  98,  99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108,
+               109, 110, 111]),
+       array([112])]
+
+    V 1.0 - 2023 Jan 12 - M.Maris
+    """
+    #
+    import numpy as np
+    #
+    rembloc=int(np.mod(len(idx),nblocks))
+
+    if strict and rembloc > 0 and nblocks>1:
+        rembloc=np.mod(len(idx),nblocks-1)
+        dblock=len(idx)//(nblocks-1)
+        EVEN=dblock*(nblocks-1)
+        out=list(np.split(idx[:EVEN],(nblocks-1)))
+        if rembloc > 0 :
+            out.append(idx[EVEN:])
+    else :
+        dblock=len(idx)//nblocks
+        EVEN=dblock*nblocks
+        out=list(np.split(idx[:EVEN],nblocks))
+        if rembloc > 0 :
+            out.append(idx[EVEN:])
+    return out