Use List comprehension: animals = ["Dog", "Tiger", "SuperLion", "Cow", "Panda"] animals_lol = [[animal, len(animal)] for animal in animals] print(animals_lol)
[['Dog', 3], ['Tiger', 5], ['SuperLion', 9], ['Cow', 3], ['Panda', 5]] If you want to read more about list comprehension, https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/lists/list-comprehensions-in-python/ <https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/lists/list-comprehensions-in-python/> is a good resource! -- Thanks, Nitin Madhok Clemson University CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail or telephone and permanently delete all copies of this e-mail and any attachments. > On Aug 13, 2018, at 11:53 AM, Rafael Knuth <rafael.kn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I wrote this code below which aims to concatenate strings with their > respective string length. > I was wondering if there is a shorter, more elegant way to accomplish this > task. > Thanks! > > animals = ["Dog", "Tiger", "SuperLion", "Cow", "Panda"] > > # step one: convert the animal list into a list of lists > > animals_lol = [] > > for animal in animals: > animal_split = animal.split(",") > animals_lol.append(animal_split) > > # step two: collect the length of each string in a separate list > > animals_len = [] > > for animal in animals: > animals_len.append(len(animal)) > > # step three: append the length of each string to the list of lists > > for a, b in enumerate(animals_lol): > b.append(animals_len[a]) > > print(animals_lol) > > [['Dog', 3], ['Tiger', 5], ['SuperLion', 9], ['Cow', 3], ['Panda', 5]] > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
_______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
