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Join strings - very simple Q.

Dustan DustanGroups at gmail.com
Sat Mar 24 08:39:11 EDT 2007 
On Mar 24, 5:59 am, "Dustan" <DustanGro... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 23, 1:30 pm, Paulo da Silva <psdasil... at esotericaX.ptX> wrote:
>
> > Mike Kent escreveu:
> > ...
>
> > > New way:
> > > l=['a','b','c']
> > > jl=','.join(l)
>
> > I thank you all.
>
> > Almost there ...
> > I tried "".join(l,',') but no success ... :-(
>
> > Paulo
>
> Perhaps you're doing it wrong, despite having an example right in
> front of you?
>
> Side by side comparison:
> jl=string.join(l,',')
> jl=','.join(l)
>
> The sequence is passed as an argument to the join method, and the
> delimiter is the string whose method is being called.

To further demonstrate (because I got a weird email that seemed to
think that my code didn't work):

>>> import string
>>> l = ['a','b','c']
>>> string.join(l,',')
'a,b,c'
>>> ','.join(l)
'a,b,c'
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