silly idea - interesting problem

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> ... a small script which takes to strings (lets say "test" and
    >> "dust") and mixes them to "tdeusstt".

    Neal> ''.join([ a for x in zip('test', 'dust') for a in x ])

There's always

    ''.join([x+y for x,y in zip('test', 'dust')])

or

    "".join(reduce(operator.add, zip('test', 'dust'), ())) 

Dunno if they are "easier" or "cleaner" however... ;-)

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