(Re)Build String to MultiValue Hash

string_build_rebuild.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
def builder(string1,string2):
    return string1 + ' ' + string2

def insert(string_list):
    return [char +'-' for char in string_list]

def joiner(string_list):
    return ''.join(x for x in string_list)

def list_strip(string_list):
    return ''.join([x.strip('-') for x in string_list])

def multivalue_hash(string,hash_name,key_name):
    return hash_name.setdefault(str(key_name), []).append(string.split(' '))



####################
s = "string"
t = "another string here"
print str("This is string1: " + s)
print str("This is string2: " + t)


string_list_built = builder(s,t)
print str("\n Concatenate two strings:\n"), string_list_built

inserted = insert(string_list_built)
print str("\n Insert '-' between every character:\n"), inserted

joined = joiner(inserted)
print str("\n Join all characters\n"), joined

final_result = list_strip(joined)
print str("\n Strip out all '-' between all characters\n"), final_result

mv_dict = {}
mv_dict.setdefault("strings", []).append(final_result.split(' '))
print str("\n Create a multivalue hash with the string\n"), mv_dict