list manipulation

[Mike Driscoll]

On Apr 22, 3:55 pm, DataSmash <r... at new.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a list that looks like this:
> roadList = ["Motorways","Local","Arterial"]
>
> I want to apply some code so that the output looks like this:
> "Motorways;Local;Arterial"
>
> ...in other words, I want each item in the list separated by a ';' and
> then the whole thing surrounded by quotes.
>
> How can this be done with the LEAST amount of code?
>
> I appreciate your help!
> R.D.

Well you could always do something like this:

output = ';'.join(roadList)

Which will put single quotes on the ends. I suppose if you want to be
silly, you could do this:

output = '"%s"' % ';'.join(roadList)

HTH

Mike