[Newbie Q on String & List Manipulation]

[Gabriel Cooper]

Matthew wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>    today is the first day i try to programming in Python,
>    my assignment is, write a silly script that probably
>    will run a few times a day to check if the Gmail services
>    is ready or not. ;)
>
>    however, i encountered some problem when playing with the
>    list and string.
>
>[...]
>
>        for item in thecookies:
>            mycookies += item
>[...]
>  
>
Try:

mycookies = string.join(thecookies, "")