How do you create a list of repeated tuples in Python?

Question

Say I have a list of tuples, I extract the first tuple from this list and then want to create a new list that simply takes the first tuple and repeats it n times creating a list

Answer 1

Let say that you have a list like this one:

list_of_tuples = [('foo', 'bar'), ('baz', 'qux')]

If you want to repeat the first tuple n times, you can use itertools.repeat

import itertools
itertools.repeat(list_of_tuples[0], n)

where n is the number of times you want the first tuple to be repeated. itertools.repeat will return a generator.