On 21-Feb-2001 Gnanasekaran Thoppae wrote: > 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? > python 2 has a lovely function called zip(), maybe it could help. Otherwise, a quick map would probably do this.