Idiomatic way of repeating items in a sequence.

[Duncan Booth]

anlri at wmdata.com (alr) wrote in 
news:f58803d.0306300326.705bad44 at posting.google.com:

> I need to repeat each item in a list n times, like this function does:
> 
>   def repeatitems(sequence, repetitions):
>       newlist = []
>       for item in sequence:
>           for i in range(repetitions):
>               newlist.append(item)
>       return newlist
> 
> Output:
> 
>  >>> repeatitems(['a', 'b', 'c'], 3)
>   ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c']
> 
> Clear and simple. But i wonder if there is a more idiomatic way. 

The most obvious one that springs to mind is just a slight simplification 
of your version:

   def repeatitems(sequence, repetitions):
       newlist = []
       for item in sequence:
           newlist.extend([item] * repetitions)
       return newlist


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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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