Idiomatic way of repeating items in a sequence.

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "alr" == alr  <anlri at wmdata.com> writes:

    alr> reduce(lambda l, i: l + i, [[item] * repetitions for item in
    alr> sequence])


Oops, premature hit of send key.  What I meant to say was

  seq = ['a', 'b', 'c']
  print [x for x in seq for i in range(len(seq))]

JDH