Appending the same string to a list of strings in Python

The simplest way to do this is with a list comprehension:

[s + mystring for s in mylist]

Notice that I avoided using builtin names like list because that shadows or hides the builtin names, which is very much not good.

Also, if you do not actually need a list, but just need an iterator, a generator expression can be more efficient (although it does not likely matter on short lists):

(s + mystring for s in mylist)

These are very powerful, flexible, and concise. Every good python programmer should learn to wield them.


Here is a simple answer using pandas.

import pandas as pd
list1 = ['foo', 'fob', 'faz', 'funk']
string = 'bar'

list2 = (pd.Series(list1) + string).tolist()
list2
# ['foobar', 'fobbar', 'fazbar', 'funkbar']

map seems like the right tool for the job to me.

my_list = ['foo', 'fob', 'faz', 'funk']
string = 'bar'
list2 = list(map(lambda orig_string: orig_string + string, my_list))

See this section on functional programming tools for more examples of map.


my_list = ['foo', 'fob', 'faz', 'funk']
string = 'bar'
my_new_list = [x + string for x in my_list]
print my_new_list

This will print:

['foobar', 'fobbar', 'fazbar', 'funkbar']

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