How do I multiply each element in a list by a number?

Question

I have a list:

my_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

How can I multiply each element in my_list by 5? The output should be:

Answer 1

Since I think you are new with Python, lets do the long way, iterate thru your list using for loop and multiply and append each element to a new list.

using for loop

lst = [5, 20 ,15]
product = []
for i in lst:
    product.append(i*5)
print product

using list comprehension, this is also same as using for-loop but more 'pythonic'

lst = [5, 20 ,15]

prod = [i * 5 for i in lst]
print prod