list manipulation

[Mike Driscoll]

John Machin wrote:
> 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.
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Well, in IDLE's output, it looked like what the OP wanted and the OP 
seemed to find my examples helpful. Besides, you did almost the exact 
same thing in your final example.

Mike