"David Isaac" <aisaac0 at verizon.net> writes: > >>> y > [116, 114, 121, 32, 116, 104, 105, 115] > >>> z=''.join(chr(yi) for yi in y) > >>> z > 'try this' > > What is an efficient way to do this if y is much longer? import array z = array.array('B',y).tostring()