tuple to string?

[John Machin]

Francois De Serres wrote:
> Francois De Serres wrote:
> 
>> hiho,
>>
>> what's the clean way to translate the tuple (0x73, 0x70, 0x61, 0x6D) 
>> to the string 'spam'?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Francois
>>  
>>
> thanks to all!
> 
> I'll pick ('%c' * len(t)) % t, for it's readability and the fact that 
> join() is on the deprec'd list.

I presume you mean "deprecated".

AFAIK there is no such thing as a "deprecated list".

Certain constructs cause a deprecation warning to be emitted at run time 
-- like passing a float argument where an int is expected.

Other constructs could be loosely described as deprecated because there 
is now a better way to do it, but no messages are generated. This is so 
for almost all of the functions in the string module. One example of 
this is "join": instead of string.join(alist, sep) one now does 
sep.join(alist)

Given a non-string sequence of single characters, the 
common/standard/well-known idiom for producing a string uses join; it is 
''.join(seq)

Backing up to readability, I wouldn't have picked
"('%c' * len(t)) % t" (nor the version with 2 fewer parentheses!) as 
particulary readable -- mainly because %c is AFAIK relatively little 
used in Python and only someone familar with C etc would understand why 
it works, or why it even exists. OTOH something like "''.join(chr(x) for 
x in t)" is made up of well-known frequently-used components.

Cheers,
John