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Python - creating patterned lists

In my current Python project, I need to create some long lists of integers for later use in plots. Currently I'm attacking this in the following way:

volume_axis = []

for values in stripped_header: 
    for doses in range(100):  
        volume_axis.append(int(values))

This code will append to my blank list, giving me the first value in stripped header 100 times, then the next value in stripped header 100 times etc.

Is there a more elegant and pythonesque way to accomplish this?

Solution 
  • for values in stripped_header: 
    volume_axis += [int(values)] * 100

    or using itertools (may be more efficient)

    from itertools import repeat
for values in stripped_header:
    volume_axis += repeat(int(values), 100)