List to string? Docstrings?

[tre17 at student.canterbury.ac.nz]

François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Hello, people.  Still learning Python.  I wrote around 6000 Python lines
> in the last 10 days! :-)  I have two quick questions for you.
> 
> 1) For converting a string into a list, I used:
> 
>         chars = list(text)
> 
>    For getting back the string from the list, I tried:
> 
>         import operator
>         text = reduce(operator.concat, chars)
> 
>    but still, I wonder if you would not have a better suggestion...
> 
[snip]

import string
text = string.join(list, '')

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Tim Evans