list to string

[jay graves]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 02:42:12 GMT, glen mettler <glen.mettler at home.com>
wrote:

>These commands will turn a string into a list:
>myword="dog"
>mywordlist=list(myword)
>result = ["d","o","g"]
>
>is there a command/function that can take the list ["d","o","g"] and make it a string "dog"?

One way is to join them.

''.join(result)

Some people don't like using the string methods in this way and they
might write:  (at least until the string module goes away.)

import string
string.join(result,'')

Hope this helps.

...
jay