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From: larudwer <larudwer@freenet.de>
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Subject: Re: repeat items in a list
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 11:52:05 +0200
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how about

 >>>> sorted(["a", "b"]*3)
['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'b']