On Feb 25, 4:39 pm, mrstephengross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to translate the contents of a list. For instance, let's > say I've got a list of strings and I want to append "foo" to each > element. I might do the following; > > list1 = ['a', 'b', 'c'] > for i in range(0, len(list1)): list1[i] += 'foo' > > Ok, that much works. But what if I don't want to modify the contents > of list1. Instead, I want list2 to hold the modified contents, like > so: > > 1 list1 = ['a', 'b', 'c'] > 2 list2 = [] > 3 for item in list1: list2.append(item + 'foo') > > Is there a way to express lines 2-3 sort-of ilke this: > > list2 = [ for item in list1: item + 'foo' ] > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > --Steve
You're so close. >>> list2 = [ item+"foo" for item in list1 ] -Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
