How can I replace a text delimited string list item with multiple list items in a python list?

Question

Given a list:

mylist = [\'dog\', \'cat\', \'mouse_bear\', \'lion_tiger_rabbit\', \'ant\']

I\'d like a one-liner to return a new list:

Answer 1

Just use 2 for clauses in your comprehension, e.g.:

>>> mylist = ['dog', 'cat', 'mouse_bear', 'lion_tiger_rabbit', 'ant']
>>> [animal for word in mylist for animal in word.split('_')]
['dog', 'cat', 'mouse', 'bear', 'lion', 'tiger', 'rabbit', 'ant']