List to string

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:28:56 -0700, Hitesh wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've a list like this..
> str1 = ['this is a test string inside list']

That's a bad name for the variable. It's called "str1" but it is a list.


> I am doing it this way.
> 
> for s in str1:
>     temp_s = s
>     print temp_s

That's redundant. Why not just "print s"? That will work perfectly.


You can do any of the following, depending on what you are trying to do.


my_list = ["first string", "second string", "third string"]

# print the entire list as a string
print my_list

# print each string individually
for s in my_list:
    print s

# save the string representation of the entire list as a variable
my_str = repr(my_list)
another_str = str(my_list)

Note that repr() and str() may have different results, depending on the
type of object you pass into them.


# extract the first string into another variable
my_str = my_list[0]

# insert the third string into another string
my_string = "This is the %s here." % my_list[2]


Hope that helps.


-- 
Steven.