R function rep() in Python (replicates elements of a list/vector)

Question

The R function rep() replicates each element of a vector:

> rep(c(\"A\",\"B\"), times=2)
[1] \"A\" \"B\" \"A\" \"B\"

This is like the list m

Answer 1

l = ['A','B']
n = [2, 4]

Your example uses strings which are already iterables. You can produce a result string which is similar to a list.

''.join([e * m for e, m in zip(l, n)])
'AABBBB'

Update: the list comprehension is not required here:

''.join(e * m for e, m in zip(l, n))
'AABBBB'