How to write python program to Combine second letters of the two strings using reduce()

Question

Combine second letters of the two strings in the following using reduce().

string1 = [‘Hello’,’Bye’]

output should be ‘ey’

Answer 1

Here is the code for that:

from functools import *

string1 = ['Hello','Bye']
print (reduce(lambda a,b : a+b,(i[1] for i in string1)))

Output:

ey

Answer 2

from functools import reduce

string1 = ['Hello','Bye']
comparision = lambda x, y: x[1] + y[1]
print(reduce(comparision, string1))

O/P:- ey