I have multiple strings containing new lines. I want to merge them horizontally so all the first lines are concatenated together, as are the second lines, third lines, and so forth.
That is:
"""line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4"""
+
"""addition 1
addition 2
addition 3
addition 4"""
=
"""line 1 addition 1
line 2 addition 2
line 3 addition 3
line 4 addition 4"""
But with way more than two entries.
How can I do this?
You can use list comprehension and str.join to concatenate the strings:
s1 = """line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4"""
s2 = """addition 1
addition 2
addition 3
addition 4"""
result = "\n".join([" ".join(elem) for elem in zip(s1.split("\n"), s2.split("\n"))])
print(result)
Output:
line 1 addition 1
line 2 addition 2
line 3 addition 3
line 4 addition 4