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+"""
+This module will hold generic functions that can operate on a wide-array of
+data structures.
+"""
+
+from math import ceil
+from functools import reduce
+from typing import Any, Tuple, Sequence
+
+def partition_all(num: int, items: Sequence[Any]) -> Tuple[Tuple[Any, ...], ...]:
+    """
+    Given a sequence `items`, return a new sequence of the same type as `items`
+    with the data partitioned into sections of `n` items per partition.
+
+    This is an approximation of clojure's `partition-all` function.
+    """
+    def __compute_start_stop__(acc, iteration):
+        start = iteration * num
+        return acc + ((start, start + num),)
+
+    iterations = range(ceil(len(items) / num))
+    return tuple([# type: ignore[misc]
+        tuple(items[start:stop]) for start, stop # type: ignore[has-type]
+        in reduce(
+            __compute_start_stop__, iterations, tuple())])