On Mon, Mar 28, 2016, at 07:36, larudwer wrote: > in case you want to mainain order: > > >>>> ["a","b"]*3 > ['a', 'b', 'a', 'b', 'a', 'b'] > > is completely suffincient. I think you've completely missed the point of what order he's talking about. How do you turn ['a', 'c', 'b'] into ['a', 'a', 'a', 'c', 'c', 'c', 'b', 'b', 'b']?