What is an efficient way to repeat a string to a certain length? Eg: repeat('abc', 7) -> 'abcabca' Here is my current code: def repeat(string, length): cur, old = 1, string while len(string) < length: string += old[cur-1] cur = (cur+1)%len(old) return string Is there a better (more pythonic) way to do this? Maybe using list comprehension? Continue reading...