[Tutor] converting unicode

[Terry Carroll]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Rene Bourgoin wrote:

> Wandering how i could convert an entire tuple of unicode strings to python strings using str(u'string')
> 
> stringtuple = ()
> stringtuple = (u'string1',u'string2',u'string3')
> 
> str(u stringtuple) # syntax problem here!!!

>>> stringtuple = (u'a', u'bcd', u'e')
>>> ''.join(stringtuple)
u'abcde'

Interestingly, this is one area where string.join() gets a different 
result:

>>> from string import join
>>> stringtuple = (u'a', u'bcd', u'e')
>>> join(stringtuple)
u'a bcd e'


I'm not sure why that would be.