Multiplying a string with a number results in “TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'str'”

Question

I need a string consisting of a repetition of a particular character. At the Python console, if I type:

n = \'0\'*8

then n gets

Answer 1

If you want the result to be a list of strings instead of a single one, you can always use this:

list(('0',) * 8)

And you can get:

['0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0']