Adding spaces to items in list (Python)

Question

I\'m a Python noob and I need some help for a simple problem.

What I need to do is create a list with 3 items and add spaces before and after every item.

For

Answer 1

In [44]: l1 = ['a', 'bb', 'c']

In [45]: [' %s '%x for x in l1]
Out[45]: [' a ', ' bb ', ' c ']