numbers to string

[Robert Kern]

David Isaac wrote:
>>>> 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?
> (A numpy solution is fine.)

With numpy, something like the following:

 >>> from numpy import *
 >>> y = [116, 114, 121, 32, 116, 104, 105, 115]
 >>> a = array(y, dtype=uint8)
 >>> z = a.tostring()
 >>> z
'try this'

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco