Concatenate same string x times

Question

There's a shortand way to concatenate a string x times instead of using something like this?

z = 'val'
y = ''
for x in range(1,10):
    y += z

Answer 1

In python you can just multiply the string to do this.

>>> mystr = 'nick'
>>> mystr*10
'nicknicknicknicknicknicknicknicknicknick'