Split a list into half by even and odd indexes? [duplicate]

You can use list slicing. The following snippet will do.

list1 = ['blah', 3, 'haha', 2, 'pointer', 1, 'poop', 'fire']
listOdd = list1[1::2] # Elements from list1 starting from 1 iterating by 2
listEven = list1[::2] # Elements from list1 starting from 0 iterating by 2
print listOdd
print listEven

Output

[3, 2, 1, 'fire']
['blah', 'haha', 'pointer', 'poop']