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On 2012-10-08 20:28, mooremath...@gmail.com wrote:
> What's the best way to accomplish this?  Am I over-complicating it?  My gut feeling is there is a better way than the following:
>
>>>> import itertools
>>>> x = [1, 2, 3]
>>>> y = list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(('insertme', x[i]) for i in range(len(x))))
>>>> y
> ['insertme', 1, 'insertme', 2, 'insertme', 3]
>
> I appreciate any and all feedback.
>
Slightly better is:

y = list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(('insertme', i) for i in x))