For example, I have the following list.
list=['abc', 'def','ghi','jkl','mn']
I want to make a new list as:
newList=['adgjm','behkn','cfil']
picking every first character of each element forming a new string then appending into the new list, and then with the second character of every element and so on:
Thanks for the help.
One way is zipping the strings in the list, which will interleave the characters from each string in the specified fashion, and join them back with str.join:
l = ['abc', 'def','ghi','jkl']
list(map(''.join, zip(*l)))
# ['adgj', 'behk', 'cfil']
For strings with different length, use zip_longest, and fill with an empty string:
from itertools import zip_longest
l = ['abcZ', 'def','ghi','jkl']
list(map(''.join, zip_longest(*l, fillvalue='')))
# ['adgj', 'behk', 'cfil', 'Z']
map is not really considered pythonic. It's a very simple and readable answer though.map myself, just saying some might not consider map pythonic to the first comment.You can try this way:
>>> list1 =['abc', 'def','ghi','jkl']
>>> newlist = []
>>> for args in zip(*list1):
... newlist.append(''.join(args))
...
>>> newlist
['adgj', 'behk', 'cfil']
Or using list comprehension:
>>> newlist = [''.join(args) for args in zip(*list1)]
>>> newlist
['adgj', 'behk', 'cfil']
You can try this:
list=['abc', 'def','ghi','jkl']
n = len(list[0])
newList = []
i = 0
for i in range(n):
newword = ''
for word in list:
newword += word[i]
newList.append(newword)
print(newList)
