How to avoid repetition into list while building dataset

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I am trying to create the following dataset:

multiple_newbooks = {"Books'Tiltle":["American Tabloid", 'Libri che mi hanno rovinato la vita ed Altri amori malinconici', '1984' ],
                         'Authors':['James Ellroy', 'Daria Bignardi', 'George Orwell'],
                         'Publisher': [('Mondadori' for i in range(0,2)), 'Feltrinelli'], 
                         'Publishing Year':[1995, 2022, 1994], 
                         'Start': ['?', '?', '?'], 
                         'Finish': ['?', '?', '?']}

As you could some data present some repetitions. I would just avoid using the .append function outside the data frame I am creating for the 'Publisher' row (since the code you see here does not work) or to avoid the following sequence of equal data:

'Start': ['?', '?', '?'], 
'Finish': ['?', '?', '?']

Could you possibly know how to use alternative elegant and smart code? Thanks for your suggestions.

Asked By: creativity

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Answer 1

If I understand you correctly, you don’t want to repeat writing the strings. You can use for example * to repeat the string:

multiple_newbooks = {
    "Books'Tiltle": [
        "American Tabloid",
        "Libri che mi hanno rovinato la vita ed Altri amori malinconici",
        "1984",
    ],
    "Authors": ["James Ellroy", "Daria Bignardi", "George Orwell"],
    "Publisher": ["Mondadori"] * 2 + ["Feltrinelli"],
    "Publishing Year": [1995, 2022, 1994],
    "Start": ["?"] * 3,
    "Finish": ["?"] * 3,
}

print(multiple_newbooks)

Prints:

{
    "Books'Tiltle": [
        "American Tabloid",
        "Libri che mi hanno rovinato la vita ed Altri amori malinconici",
        "1984",
    ],
    "Authors": ["James Ellroy", "Daria Bignardi", "George Orwell"],
    "Publisher": ["Mondadori", "Mondadori", "Feltrinelli"],
    "Publishing Year": [1995, 2022, 1994],
    "Start": ["?", "?", "?"],
    "Finish": ["?", "?", "?"],
}

Or better:

multiple_newbooks = {
    "Books'Tiltle": [
        "American Tabloid",
        "Libri che mi hanno rovinato la vita ed Altri amori malinconici",
        "1984",
    ],
    "Authors": ["James Ellroy", "Daria Bignardi", "George Orwell"],
    "Publisher": ["Mondadori" for _ in range(2)] + ["Feltrinelli"],
    "Publishing Year": [1995, 2022, 1994],
    "Start": ["?" for _ in range(3)],
    "Finish": ["?" for _ in range(3)],
}

Answered By: Andrej Kesely

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