How to you convert list of tuples to string

[Ned Batchelder]

On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 3:43:05 AM UTC-5, Larry Hudson wrote:
> 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.


"new" == "Introduced in 2.6, available since 2008" :)

--Ned.