Splice two lists

[Michael J. Fromberger]

In article <1146961724.195038.18680 at u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>,
 "danmcleran at yahoo.com" <danmcleran at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Is there a good way to splice two lists together without resorting to a
> manual loop? Say I had 2 lists:
> 
> l1 = [a,b,c]
> l2 = [1,2,3]
> 
> And I want a list:
> 
> [a,1,b,2,c,3] as the result.
> 
> I've been searching around but I can't seem to find a good example.

Here's one possibility:

  list(reduce(lambda s, t: s + t, zip(L1, L2), ()))

-M

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Michael J. Fromberger             | Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sting/  | Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA