converting an array of chars to a string

Derek Thomson derek at wedgetail.com
Fri Jun 21 04:22:02 EDT 2002


JB wrote:
> How can I convert an array of chars to string?
> 
> The problem is this: I should like to perform 8 bit 
> calculations in a buffer. After this has been done, the 
> buffer has to ba written to a binary file (and file.write 
> takes strings instead of lists).
> 

Easy, just use the "join" function to concatenate a sequence of strings 
into a single string. For example:


import string

list = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']

s = string.join(list, '')

print s


Regards,
Derek.




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