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list - Iterating over partitions in Python

I was wondering what the best way is (in Python) to iterate over partitions of a list of a given size.

Say, for example, we have the list [1,2,3,4,5] and we want k=3 partitions. A poor way of doing this would be to write:

lst = [1,2,3,4,5]
for i in range(1,len(lst)):
    for j in range(i+1, len(lst)):
        print lst[:i], lst[i:j], lst[j:]

This gives

[1], [2], [3,4,5]
[1], [2,3], [4,5]
...
[1,2,3], [4], [5]

But if I later wanted to iterate over k=4 partitions, then I would have to add a level of for loop nesting, which can't be done at runtime. Ideally, I'd like to write something like:

for part in partitions([1,2,3,4,5], k):
    print part

Does anyone know the best way of doing this?

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I accomplished what I was trying to do by writing:

from itertools import tee, izip, combinations

def partitions(items, k):
    N = len(items)

    def pairwise(iterable):  # Taken from itertools recipies
        a, b = tee(iterable)
        next(b, None)
        return izip(a, b)

    def applyPart(part, items):
        lists = []
        for l,h in pairwise([0] + part + [N]):
            lists.append(items[l:h])
        return lists

    for part in combinations(range(1, N), k - 1):
        yield applyPart(list(part), items)

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