Blender script that reduce your section of objects to nth objects.

nthObjectSelector.py

"""
nthObjectSelector by gordielachance
This will reduce your current selection of object to nth objects.
https://gist.github.com/gordielachance/ba32a3087f8d327bfdeb9d0ea7fb4935
"""
import bpy

#SETUP
nth = 3 #Specify your nth value here !

#list of selected objects
list_all = bpy.context.selected_objects

#start by unselecting everything
for obj in list_all:
    obj.select = False
    
#now only select nth
list_reduced = list_all[::nth]

for obj in list_reduced:
    obj.select = True
    
#debug
print("nthObjectSelector ({}) : selected {} out {} objects".format(nth,len(list_reduced), len(list_all)))