[Tutor] Best way to convert list of ints to a string?

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Sat Apr 26 05:28:03 CEST 2008


Dick Moores wrote:
> I have the feeling that I've either forgotten (or never knew) some basic 
> Python built-in or something, but in case I haven't, what's the best way 
> to convert a list of integers to a string?

I dunno about 'best', but here is one way to do it:
''.join(map(str, intList))

Perhaps faster using iterator.imap() instead of map().

Kent


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