Pythonic way to iterate over list and create a tuple with each value

Question

So I have this list:

['test.csv', 'test2.csv']

I need it to have its final form like this:

[('test.csv', 'test.csv'),('test2.csv', 'test2.csv')]

What would be the best way, performance wise, to do this in Python?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I'd zip:

[*zip(lst, lst)]

Benchmark on list(map(str, range(1000))):

 28 us  [*zip(lst, lst)]
 44 us  [(file, file) for file in files]
 89 us  [(file,) * 2 for file in files]
259 us  list(map(lambda x: tuple([x] * 2), lst))

Or for repeating each value 10 instead of 2 times (just because someone proposed generalizing like that... I don't think it's something you'd realistically do... already your duplication is an odd thing to do):

 67 us  [*zip(*[lst] * 10)]
115 us  [(file,) * 10 for file in files]
287 us  list(map(lambda x: tuple([x] * 10), lst))

Code (Try it online!):

from timeit import repeat

setup = '''
lst = files = list(map(str, range(1000)))
'''
codes = '''
[*zip(lst, lst)]
[(file, file) for file in files]
[(file,) * 2 for file in files]
list(map(lambda x: tuple([x] * 2), lst))
'''.strip().splitlines()

for _ in range(3):
    for code in codes:
        t = min(repeat(code, setup, number=1000))
        print('%3d us ' % (t * 1e3), code)
    print()