[Tutor] elegant way to turn list into string

[Chris Smith]

> while x < 26:
>     new_alph = alph[1:] + alph[:1]
>     print new_alph
>     print "\n"
>     x += 1
>
> But this has the drawback of not progressing with my
> newly create alphabet, it just returns:
> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

The reason that new_alph never changes is that you are calculating it 
from the same (unchanging) thing every time.  The value of alph never 
changes in your loop, so the value of new_alph is always the same.

Others have given suggestions as to what else you might do, but a fix 
for the above loop is to replace the word new_alph with alph.

/c