str().join() isn't working

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On Aug 20, 1:16 pm, "Robert Dailey" <rcdai... at gmail.com> wrote:
> here is a more realized example of the lists I'm trying to join:
>
> _user_includes = [
>         "../src",
>         "../resource",
>         "../inc",
>         "../src",
>         "../data",
>         "../gui",
>         "../script",
>         "../script/actions",
>         "../gui/dispatch",
>         "../gui/factories",
>         "../gui/frames",
>         "../gui/getters",
>         "../gui/localization",
>         "../gui/player",
>         "../gui/setters",
>         "../gui/utilities",
>         "../sis",
>         "../player",
>         "../platform/ngi",
>         "../../engine",
>         "../../engine/audio/NGI",
>         "../../engine/io",
>         "../../engine/io\NGI",
>         "../../engine/math",
>         "../../engine/math/fixed",
>         "../../engine/path/NGI",
>         "../../engine/text/NGI",
>         "../../engine/mem",
>         "../../engine/text",
>         "../../engine/observer",
>         "../../sdk/tiny_xml",
>         "../../sdk/zlib",
>         "../../sdk/lpng",
>         "../../sdk/IFDLib/Source/Precompile",
>         "../../sdk/IFDLib/Source/CoreLib",
>         "../../sdk/IFDLib/inc",
>         "../../sdk/IFDLib/Source/UtilLib",
>         "../../sdk/IFDLib/Source/GameLib",
>         "../../sdk/IFDlib/Source/OSLib/_NGI",
>         "../../sdk/stl-port/NGI",
>         "../../sdk/mini-boost/NGI",
>         "../../sdk/mini-boost/COMMON",
>         ]
>
> _system_includes = [
>         "../../../../../../Symbian/9.1/NGAGE_SDK_1.1/EPOC32/include",
>         "../../../../../../Symbian/9.1/NGAGE_SDK_1.1/EPOC32/include/osextensions/rg­a",
>         "../../../../../../Symbian/9.1/NGAGE_SDK_1.1/EPOC32/include/osextensions/st­dapis",
>         "../../../../../../Symbian/9.1/NGAGE_SDK_1.1/EPOC32/include/osextensions/st­dapis/stlport",
>         "../../../../../../Symbian/9.1/NGAGE_SDK_1.1/epoc32/include/variant"
>         ]
>
> On 8/20/07, Robert Dailey <rcdai... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > First have a look at the following code:
>
> > In main.py:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­--------
> >     space = " "
>
> >     includes = space.join ( system._user_includes ) + " " + space.join(
> > system._system_includes )
>
> > In system.py:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­--------
> > _user_includes = [
> >     ]
>
> > _system_includes = [
> >     ]
>
> > The above does not work. The interpreter states: "TypeError: sequence item
> > 0: expected string, list found". I'm not sure what this means. Can anyone
> > help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.
>
> > PS: I've also tried putting strings in the lists above just to make sure
> > that them being empty wasn't the problem. I got no different results.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -


I have no system.py, but when I run

includes = space.join (_user_includes ) + " " +
space.join(_system_includes )


with the lists given in your post, I get no error. I am using v2.5.1
on Windows XP.