fast way of turning a list of integers<256 into a string

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:44:51PM -0800, Jonathan P. wrote:
> s=''
> for i in range(1,255):
>   s+=chr(i)
> 
> has horrible performance (primarily due to string
> immutability I think).  Is there a function to do
> the ff. instead:
> 
> x=range(1,255)
> list2str(x)

How about this?

>>> x = range(65,91)
>>> ''.join(map(chr, x))
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'

-Andrew.