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

You can do:

mylist = ['dog', 'cat', 'mouse_bear', 'lion_tiger_rabbit', 'ant']
result = sum((s.split("_") for s in mylist), [])
print(result)
>>> ['dog', 'cat', 'mouse', 'bear', 'lion', 'tiger', 'rabbit', 'ant']