[PYTHON STRING-SIG] Re: [PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Array -> Str

[Robin.K.Friedrich@usahq.unitedspacealliance.com]

Well maybe your talking about the numeric's array and not python's 
original array module but what's wrong with using the array object 
method designed for that?

charray.tostring()


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Subject: [PYTHON STRING-SIG] Re: [PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Array -> String
Author:  Jim Fulton <jim.fulton@digicool.com> at INTERNET
Date:    5/7/97 10:03 AM


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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