Adding spaces to items in list (Python)

Question

I\'m a Python noob and I need some help for a simple problem.

What I need to do is create a list with 3 items and add spaces before and after every item.

For

Answer 1

[ ' {} '.format(x) for x in lst ]

EDIT for python 3.6+:

you can use f-strings instead, see docs: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/

the example above would look like:

[ f' {x} ' for x in lst ]