newbie - concatanating 2 lists

[Steve Purcell]

Gnanasekaran Thoppae wrote:
> i am just beginning to use python.

Good choice!

> li1 = ['a', 'b', 'c']
> li2 = ['x', 'y', 'z']
> 
> i want:
> 
> li3 = ['ax', 'by', 'cz']

There may be more readable ways, but the shortest is probably this:

>>> li1 = ['a', 'b', 'c']
>>> li2 = ['x', 'y', 'z']
>>> li3 = map(lambda a,b: a+b, ['a','b','c'], ['x','y','z'])
>>> li3
['ax', 'by', 'cz']


-Steve

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