Substitute for join()

[Siggy Brentrup]

"Daniel Klein" <DanielK at jBASE.com> writes:

> I've got to make a script (written in version 2.0) to work on a machine
> running 1.5.2. The only incompatible line is one that uses the
> "".join(mylist) method. To 'get out of the woods' quickly, I substituted it
> with
> 
> s = ''
> for element in mylist: s = s + element
> 
> Is this the most efficient way to code this?

Nope, use

import string
string.join(mylist,'')

HIH
  Siggy
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