Idiomatic way of repeating items in a sequence.

[Duncan Booth]

Duncan Booth <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote in
news:Xns93AA81EC76E7Eduncanrcpcouk at 127.0.0.1: 

> 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
> 

Or, if you are in a "I've got a new toy to play with" mood you could use 
itertools from Python 2.3 to obfuscate it somewhat:

  from itertools import chain, izip, repeat
  def repeatiterate(sequence, repetitions):
      return chain(*izip(*repeat(sequence, repetitions)))

This version returns an iterator, so you might want to throw in a call to 
'list' if you want to do anything other than iterating over the result.

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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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