[Tutor] Is there a better way to write my code?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 13/08/18 16:53, Rafael Knuth wrote:
> I wrote this code below which aims to concatenate strings with their
> respective string length.
> I was wondering if there is a shorter, more elegant way to accomplish this task.
> Thanks!
> 
> animals = ["Dog", "Tiger", "SuperLion", "Cow", "Panda"]
> 
> # step one: convert the animal list into a list of lists
> 
> animals_lol = []
> 
> for animal in animals:
>      animal_split = animal.split(",")
>      animals_lol.append(animal_split) >
> # step two: collect the length of each string in a separate list
> 
> animals_len = []
> 
> for animal in animals:
>      animals_len.append(len(animal))
> 
> # step three: append the length of each string to the list of lists
> 
> for a, b in enumerate(animals_lol):
>      b.append(animals_len[a])
> 
> print(animals_lol)
> 
> [['Dog', 3], ['Tiger', 5], ['SuperLion', 9], ['Cow', 3], ['Panda', 5]]
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For a definition of better:-

animals = ["Dog", "Tiger", "SuperLion", "Cow", "Panda"]
animals_lol = []
for animal in animals:
     animals_lol.append((animal, len(animal)))
print(animals_lol)

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Mark Lawrence