Python: Create strikethrough / strikeout / overstrike string type

Question

I would appreciate some help in creating a function that iterates through a string and combines each character with a strikethrough character (\\u0336). With the output bein

Answer 1

How about:

from itertools import repeat, chain

''.join(chain.from_iterable(zip(text, repeat('\u0336'))))

or even more simply,

'\u0336'.join(text) + '\u0336'