how to build arbitrarily-sized lists in one fell swoop?

[Jürgen Hermann]

"Samuel Scarano" <srs25 at cornell.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> There's a simple thing I want to do in python but I can't find a way that
is
> obvious to the reader and efficient for the interpreter. I want to make a
> list with n copies of x.

Now that's an easy one:

>>> x = 1
>>> [x] * 10
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]