newbie - concatanating 2 lists

[Michael Hudson]

"Gnanasekaran Thoppae" <gnana at mips.biochem.mpg.de> writes:

> hi,
> 
> i am just beginning to use python.
> 
> i have:
> 
> li1 = ['a', 'b', 'c']
> li2 = ['x', 'y', 'z']
> 
> i want:
> 
> li3 = ['ax', 'by', 'cz']
> 
> how do i do it?

map(lambda x,y: x+y, li1, li2) will do.

More generally,

map(''.join, zip(li1, li2))

will extend to >2 lists.

Cheers,
M.

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