Moving from perl to python: questions

[Gaetan Corneau]

David,

>   1) Best way to convert array argv[1:] into string to pass functions

from string import join

l = ["aaa", "bbb", "ccc"]

s = join(l[1:])


>   2) How to implement a no-frills file slurp() function

What is a "slurp" function?
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