On Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 11:52:22 AM UTC+2, larudwer wrote: > how about > > >>>> sorted(["a", "b"]*3) > ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'b']
that's cooler, less efficient though and do not maintain the original order. In case such order was important, you should proceed as follows: If the elements are unique, this would work: sorted(sequence*nrep, key=sequence.index) Otherwise you'd need a more complex key function (maybe a method of a class with a static variable that tracks the number of times that such method is called and with a "dynamic index functionality" that acts accordingly (i-th nrep-group of value v)) and imo it does not worth it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
