newbie - concatanating 2 lists

[Steve Purcell]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Steve Purclel wrote:
> > >>> li3 = map(lambda a,b: a+b, ['a','b','c'], ['x','y','z'])
> 
> It's not the shortest way in Python2 -- rather, I'd code it:
> 
>       li3 = [ a+b for a,b in zip(li1, li2) ]

Hang on, it *is* still the shortest way in Python 2:

        li3 = [a+b for a,b in zip(li1,li2)]
        li3 = map(lambda a,b:a+b,li1,li2)

Any excuse to put off using list comprehensions for a while... :-)

-Steve

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