How to collapse a list into a string in python?

Question

Lets say you have a list like ['a', 'b', 'c'] and you want it to look like 'abc' and you don't want to use some big stupid looking for loop.

score 45 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 25 '14 at 19:34

45

>>> str_list=['a','b','c']
>>> ''.join(str_list)
'abc'

answered Jan 25 '14 at 19:34

afkfurion

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 25 '14 at 19:34

8

I think it's

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

answered Jan 25 '14 at 19:34

embert

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