[Tutor] Converting a list to a string

[Remco Gerlich]

On  0, Praveen Pathiyil <ppathiyi@cisco.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If i have a list 
> status = ['tftp>', 'Sent', '1943', 'bytes', 'in', '0.0', 'seconds'],
> is there a single command which will give me a string 
> tftp> Sent 1943 bytes in 0.0 seconds
> 
> OR do i have to do 
> 
> stat_str = ''
> for elt in status:
>     stat_str = stat_str + ' ' + elt

import string
print string.join(status)    # If you want something other than a space,
                             # give it as second argument.

In new versions you can also spell that

" ".join(status)       # Join list 'status' with spaces in between

-- 
Remco Gerlich