list manipulation

[John Machin]

Mike Driscoll wrote:

> Well you could always do something like this:
> 
> output = ';'.join(roadList)
> 
> Which will put single quotes on the ends.

No, it doesn't. You are conflating foo and repr(foo).

  I suppose if you want to be
> silly, you could do this:
> 
> output = '"%s"' % ';'.join(roadList)

*IF* your first effort were to put single quotes on the ends 
('the-text') then your second effort would certainly produce something 
silly  ... either '"the-text"' or "'the-text'" depending on which of the 
assignment or the join method you imagined was producing the single quotes.