Representing tuples in strings

[Carl Banks]

Graham Ashton <graz at mindless.com> wrote:
> I'm looking to convert the tuple:
> 
>   ('string1', 3, 'string2')
> 
> to the string representation:
> 
>   'string1', 3, 'string2'
> 
> without resorting to a regular expression.


repr(('string1', 3, 'string2'))[1:-1]



> So far the nearest I've managed to get to is to have quotes round the
> whole thing, but not around the strings themselves. I suppose what I want
> here really is some better function to pass into map(). Maybe...
> 
>   >>> mytup = ('string1', 3, 'string2')
>   >>> ", ".join(map(str, mytup))
>   'string1, 3, string2'
> 
> Any thoughts? It's not exactly going to make the difference between life
> and death in my application (it's for log files), but I'd really like to
> learn some map/lambda tricks.


You want repr.


-- 
CARL