Is there a Python equivalent of Perl's x operator (replicate string)?

Question

In Perl, I can replicate strings with the 'x' operator:

$str = "x" x 5;

Can I do something similar in Python?

Answer 1

>>> "blah" * 5
'blahblahblahblahblah'

Answer 2

Here is a reference to the official Python3 docs:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods

Strings implement all of the common sequence operations...

... which leads us to:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#typesseq-common

Operation      | Result
s * n or n * s | n shallow copies of s concatenated

Example:

>>> 'a' * 5
'aaaaa'
>>> 5 * 'b'
'bbbbb'