converting to string

[Gandalf]

Ajay Brar wrote:

> hi!
>
> how do i go about converting a Python object or tuple to a string.
> i am currently doing
> import cPickle as pickle
> str = pickle.dumps(obj)
>
> is that efficient? is that the best way to do it? 

Yes. You did not tell what the items in the tuple can be so I guess this 
is the most efficient.
For special cases you can find a more efficient solution.For example, 
for tuples of integers,
you can write a C extension that allocates a big string and copies every 
int object into 4 bytes
in the string. That would be more efficient.

Regards,

   Laci 2.0