On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:28:43 -0700, mooremathewl wrote: >>>> import itertools >>>> x = [1, 2, 3] >>>> y = list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(('insertme', x[i]) for i in >>>> range(len(x)))) y > ['insertme', 1, 'insertme', 2, 'insertme', 3] >>> [i for j in [1,2,3] for i in ('insertme', j)] ['insertme', 1, 'insertme', 2, 'insertme', 3]