How to you convert list of tuples to string

[Larry Hudson]

On 11/22/2016 08:51 AM, Michiel Overtoom wrote:
> Hi Ganesh,
>
>> Any better suggestion to improve this piece of code and make it look more pythonic?
>
>
> import random
>
> # A list of tuples. Note that the L behind a number means that the number is a 'long'.
>
> data = [(1, 1, 373891072L, 8192), (1, 3, 390348800L, 8192), (1, 4, 372719616L,
>     8192), (2, 3, 382140416L, 8192), (2, 5, 398721024L, 8192), (3, 1,
>     374030336L, 8192), (3, 3, 374079488L, 8192), (3, 5, 340058112L, 8192)]
>
> item = random.choice(data)  # Select a random item from the 'data' list.
>
> msg = "%d,%d,%d:%d" % item  # Format it in the way you like.
>
> print msg
>
>
> Greetings,
>

Or using the new string formatting syntax:

msg = '{},{},{}:{}'.format(*item)

The *item in the format() unpacks the tuple.

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