list to string

[Ben Hutchings]

"Delaney, Timothy" <tdelaney at avaya.com> writes:
<snip>
> It will be much faster and use much less memory. Of course, for this
> particular case, there is a much better method ...
> 
> 	text = string.join(f.readlines(), '\n')
> 
> or even
> 
> 	text = f.read()	# may have slightly different semantics to the above
> depending on platform, file and open mode
<snip>

f.readlines() leaves the line terminator at the end of each of its
lines, so the first expression will double the line terminators
(except at the end of the last line).

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