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Yingjie Lin wrote:

> Hi Python users,
> 
> I have two lists:
> 
> li1 = ['a', 'b']
> li2 = ['1', '2']
> 
> and I wish to obtain a list like this
> 
> li3 = ['a1', 'a2', 'b1', 'b2']
> 
> Is there a handy and efficient function to do this, especially when li1
> and li2 are long lists.
> I found zip() but it only gives [('a', '1'), ('b', '2')],  not exactly
> what I am looking for.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> - Yingjie

Hello Yingjie,

This isn't exactly handy, but...

>>> import itertools
>>> a = ('a', 'b')
>>> b = (1, 2)
>>> [x + str(y) for (x, y) in itertools.product(*(a, b))]
['a1', 'a2', 'b1', 'b2']


Cheers,

Kev