What is the best way to create a string array in python?

Question

I\'m relatively new to Python and it\'s libraries and I was wondering how I might create a string array with a preset size. It\'s easy in java but I was wondering how I might do

Answer 1

Are you trying to do something like this?

>>> strs = [s.strip('\(\)') for s in ['some\\', '(list)', 'of', 'strings']]
>>> strs 
['some', 'list', 'of', 'strings']