You could make it a generator:
def mygen(lst):
for item in lst:
yield item
yield item + '_ind'
>>> a = ['a','b','c']
>>> list(mygen(a))
['a', 'a_ind', 'b', 'b_ind', 'c', 'c_ind']
You could also do it with itertools.product
, itertools.starmap
or itertools.chain
or nested comprehensions but in most cases I would prefer a simple to understand, custom generator-function.
With python3.3, you can also use yield from
—generator delegation—to make this elegant solution just a bit more concise:
def mygen(lst):
for item in lst:
yield from (item, item + '_ind')