string.join question

[Michal Wallace]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 mongo57a at comcast.net wrote:

> Thanks - it "kind of" works - but not quite. So now there is a part 2 of the
> question:
> 
> value = 'aaa'
> a = string.join(string.join(["'", value,"'"],''),',')
> 
> This should yield (what I want.....): 'aaa',
> 
> Instead it yields: ',a,a,a,'
> 
> ??????????????????????? Looks crazy to me......

No, it's right, because join takes a sequence. Your "aaa"
string is a sequence of characters. :)

What are you really trying to do? :)

Cheers,

- Michal   http://www.sabren.net/   sabren at manifestation.com 
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