"Peter Otten" <__peter__ at web.de> wrote in message news:g14gkp$gs2$01$1 at news.t-online.com... >> A slightly similar problem: If I want to "merge," say, list1=[1,2,3] ... >>>> items = [None] * 6 >>>> items[::2] = 1,2,3 >>>> items[1::2] = 4,5,6 >>>> items > [1, 4, 2, 5, 3, 6] Thanks Peter, that's pretty clean -- I like it!