how to append to a list twice?

Nick Craig-Wood nick at craig-wood.com
Fri Apr 21 15:30:03 EDT 2006


Edward Elliott <nobody at 127.0.0.1> wrote:
>  John Salerno wrote:
>  > If I want to create a list of the form [100, 99, 99, 98, 98, 97, 97...]
>  > (where each item is repeated twice after the first one), how might I do
>  > that most efficiently?
> 
>  Why not just this:
> 
>  series = [x/2 for x in range(200, 1, -1)]

That should be

  series = [x//2 for x in range(200, 1, -1)]

to be "from __future__ import division" safe

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