CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
Tailor
Tailor

Reputation: 21

How to jumble up letters from two strings, in turn of each letter

Turns out to be an extension, to do this. For example: "hello world" becomes "hweolrllod", where it is the 1st letter from hello, the 1st from world and so on.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 226

Answers (1)

akuiper
akuiper

Reputation: 215107

If the two words are of same length, you can use zip:

''.join(x for p in zip(*"hello world".split(" ")) for x in p)
# 'hweolrllod'

''.join(x for p in zip("hello", "world") for x in p)
# 'hweolrllod'

If they are not of the same length, and you want to keep the longer version, use zip_longest:

from itertools import zip_longest    
''.join(x for p in zip_longest(*"he world".split(" "), fillvalue='') for x in p)
# 'hweorld'

''.join(x for p in zip_longest("he", "world", fillvalue='') for x in p)
# 'hweorld'

Upvotes: 6

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