Element wise concatenate multiple lists (list of list of strings)

Question

i have a list of list of strings as below

lst = [[\'a\',\'b\',\'c\'],[\'@\',\'$\',\'#\'],[\'1\',\'2\',\'3\']]

I want to concatenate each

Answer 1

Not as elegant as yatu's answer but if you're using pandas:

import pandas as pd
pd.DataFrame(lst).sum(axis=0)

# 0    a@1
# 1    b$2
# 2    c#3
# dtype: object

Pandas Series have a .tolist() method to get the expected output:

series = pd.DataFrame(lst).sum(axis=0)
series.tolist()

# ['a@1', 'b$2', 'c#3']