tuple to string?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 23:26:19 +1000, John Machin wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>>>>''.join(map(lambda n: chr(n), (0x73, 0x70, 0x61, 0x6D)))
>> 
>> 'spam'
> 
> Why the verbal diarrhoea? 

One line is hardly verbal diarrhoea.

> What's wrong with the (already posted)
> 
> ''.join(map(chr, (0x73, 0x70, 0x61, 0x6D)))
> 
> ???

Nothing.

If I had seen the already posted solution using chr on its own without
lambda, I wouldn't have bothered posting the lambda solution. But I
didn't, so I did.

As another poster has already pointed out, lambda cries out for over-use,
and this was a perfect example of it.


-- 
Steven.