Mel wrote: > Yingjie Lin wrote: >> I have two lists: >> >> li1 = ['a', 'b'] >> li2 = ['1', '2'] >> >> and I wish to obtain a list like this >> >> li3 = ['a1', 'a2', 'b1', 'b2'] [ ... ] > This seems to do it : > > mwilson@tecumseth:~$ python > Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56) > [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> import itertools >>>> li1 = ['a', 'b'] >>>> li2 = ['1', '2'] >>>> map (lambda (x,y):x+y, list (itertools.product (li1, li2))) > ['a1', 'a2', 'b1', 'b2']
I have doubts about this in Python3, since tuple unpacking in a argument list isn't done there, and I don't think sum works on strings. Some other function can probably be made to work. Mel. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list