Francois De Serres wrote: > hiho, > > what's the clean way to translate the tuple (0x73, 0x70, 0x61, 0x6D) to > the string 'spam'? one way is to use a list expression: >>> ''.join([chr(c) for c in (0x73, 0x70, 0x61, 0x6D)]) 'spam' another is to use map: >>> ''.join(map(chr, (0x73, 0x70, 0x61, 0x6D))) 'spam' HTH, deelan. -- deelan, #1 fan of adriana lima! <http://www.deelan.com/>