I can create a list that has repeated elements of another list as follows: xx = ["a","b"] nrep = 3 print xx yy = [] for aa in xx: for i in range(nrep): yy.append(aa) print yy output: ['a', 'b'] ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'b'] Is there a one-liner to create a list with repeated elements?