Concatenating strings

[Robert Kern]

John Henry wrote:
> Sorry if this is a dumb question.
> 
> I have a list of strings (some 10,000+) and I need to concatenate them
> together into one very long string.  The obvious method would be, for
> example:
> 
> alist=["ab","cd","ef",.....,"zzz"]
> blist = ""
> for x in alist:
>    blist += x
> 
> But is there a cleaner and faster way of doing this?

blist = ''.join(alist)

-- 
Robert Kern

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  an underlying truth."
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