[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Array -> String

Jim Fulton jim.fulton@digicool.com
Wed, 07 May 1997 11:03:38 -0400


Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> 
> Has anyone found an efficient method to convert a character array into
> a string? The only solution I could come up with is
> 
>   string = reduce(operator.add, array)
> 
> which is of course terribly inefficient.

How about 

  string=string.join(list(array),'')

Of course, ot would be nicer of string.join accepted any type of
sequence.

Jim

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