[Tutor] Joining all strings in stringList into one string

[Jordan]

On 05/30/2012 06:21 PM, Akeria Timothy wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am working on learning Python(on my own) and ran into an exercise
> that I figured out but I wanted to know if there was a different way
> to write the code? I know he wanted a different answer for the body
> because we haven't gotten to the ' '.join() command yet.
>
> This is what I have:
>
> def joinStrings(stringList):
>  string = []
>     for string in stringList:
# Here you never used the string variable so why have a for statement?
>         print ''.join(stringList)
#Another version might look like this:

def join_strings2(string_list):
    final_string = ''
    for string in string_list:
        final_string += string
    print(final_string)
    return final_string
# Tested in Python 3.2

join_strings2(['1', '2', '3', '4', '5'])
>        
>    
> def main():
>     print joinStrings(['very', 'hot', 'day'])
>     print joinStrings(['this', 'is', 'it'])
>     print joinStrings(['1', '2', '3', '4', '5'])
>
> main()
>
>
> thanks all
>
>
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