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Using counter in map, lambda in Python

I need to create this list ["1", "12", "123", "1234", "12345", ..., "123456789"] without using loops. How can I do it by using map, lambda functions?

I can do it like in the code writthen below, but that's not what I need:

lst = []
        num = ""
        for i in range(1,10):
            num += str(i)
            lst.append(num)
        print(lst)

I also tried this: lst = list(map(lambda x: str(x), range(1,10))) , but I got ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9'] instead of ["1", "12", "123", "1234", "12345", ..., "123456789"].

Solution

  • Your attempt of list(map(lambda x: str(x), range(1,10))) is a good start, but in order to produce a string of incremental numbers joined together you can map another range generator to str and concatenate them with ''.join:

    list(map(lambda n: ''.join(map(str, range(1, n + 1))), range(1, 10)))

    Demo: https://ideone.com/zbOTvh