Creating a List of Strings with Incremental Numbers Using Python List Comprehension

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by vigneshchennai74 dot icon Updated: Feb 17, 2023

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 Certainly! This code provides a concise and effective way to generate a list of strings with incremental numbers using Python list comprehension. Python list comprehension is a syntactic construct that allows you to create new lists by iterating over an existing iterable and applying an expression to each item.


In the code you provided, the iterable is a range of integers from 0 to length-1. The expression applied to each item is the concatenation of the string "A" and the string representation of the item plus 1.  


The code works like this: 

  • The variable length is assigned the value 5. 
  • The variable my_name is assigned the string value "A". 
  • The list comprehension iterates over the range of integers from 0 to length-1, using the loop variable i. 
  • For each iteration, the loop variable i is incremented by one and converted to a string using the str() function. 
  • The resulting string is concatenated with the string "A" using the + operator. 
  • The concatenated string is added to the new list. 
  • The new list is assigned to the variable desired_list. 
  • After the code is executed, desired_list will contain the strings "A1", "A2", "A3", "A4", and "A5", in that order

 

Python list comprehension is a powerful and concise tool for creating new lists from existing tables, and it can often be used to replace longer and more complicated loops. This example allows us to create a new list with just one line of code, making it both efficient and easy to read. 

Preview of the output that you will get on running this code from your IDE

Code

  1. Copy the code using the "Copy" button above, and paste it in a Python file in your IDE
  2. Run the file to get a list with defined length in Python.


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  • The solution is created in Python 3.7.15 Version


Using this solution, we can able to create a list with a defined length and items in Python. This process also facilities an easy to use, hassle free method to create a hands-on working version of code which would create a list with a defined length and items in Python.

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