List to string? Docstrings?

[Fredrik Lundh]

François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> 1) For converting a string into a list, I used:
>
>         chars = list(text)
>
>    For getting back the string from the list, I tried:
>
>         import operator
>         text = reduce(operator.concat, chars)
>
>    but still, I wonder if you would not have a better suggestion.

Guido has written an essay on this topic:
http://www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str.html

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