Obtain flat list by combining two lists

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If I have two lists：A=[1,2,3] ,B=[4,5,6].How to combine them like: C=[1,4,2,5,3,6]? Is there an effective way to do it, rather than do it like D=A[0]+B[0]+A[1]+B[1]+A[2]+B[2]?

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 13 '20 at 14:12

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Use zip to aggregate both iterables, and flatten the result with another level of iteration:

[i for t in zip(A,B) for i in t]
# [1, 4, 2, 5, 3, 6]

answered Oct 13 '20 at 14:12

yatu

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 13 '20 at 14:17

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I'd slice.

>>> C, C[::2], C[1::2] = A+B, A, B
>>> C
[1, 4, 2, 5, 3, 6]

answered Oct 13 '20 at 14:17

superb rain

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 13 '20 at 14:14

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Iterate through the list with a loop:

res = []
for i in range(min(len(A), len(B))):
  res.append(A[i])
  res.append(B[i])

This stops as soon as one of the lists is out of elements

answered Oct 13 '20 at 14:14

Dennis

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Obtain flat list by combining two lists

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