List to string

[Hitesh]

Hi,

I've a list like this..
str1 = ['this is a test string inside list']

I am doing it this way.

for s in str1:
temp_s = s
print temp_s

Any better suggestions?

Thank you,
hj

[Hitesh]

On Mar 18, 12:28 am, "Hitesh" <[e-mail]:

Hi,

I've a list like this..
str1 = ['this is a test string inside list']

I am doing it this way.

for s in str1:
temp_s = s
print temp_s

Any better suggestions?

Thank you,
hj

I want to cast value of a list into string..

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:28:56 -0700, Hitesh wrote:

>
Hi,

I've a list like this..
str1 = ['this is a test string inside list']

That's a bad name for the variable. It's called "str1" but it is a list.

I am doing it this way.

for s in str1:
temp_s = s
print temp_s

That's redundant. Why not just "print s"? That will work perfectly.
You can do any of the following, depending on what you are trying to do.
my_list = ["first string", "second string", "third string"]

# print the entire list as a string
print my_list

# print each string individually
for s in my_list:
print s

# save the string representation of the entire list as a variable
my_str = repr(my_list)
another_str = str(my_list)

Note that repr() and str() may have different results, depending on the
type of object you pass into them.
# extract the first string into another variable
my_str = my_list[0]

# insert the third string into another string
my_string = "This is the %s here." % my_list[2]
Hope that helps.
--
Steven.

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Hitesh a écrit :

On Mar 18, 12:28 am, "Hitesh" <[e-mail]:

>Hi,

I've a list like this..
str1 = ['this is a test string inside list']

I am doing it this way.

for s in str1:
temp_s = s
print temp_s

Why this useless temp_s var ?

>>
Any better suggestions?

Thank you,
hj

I want to cast value of a list into string..

There's no "cast" in Python. It would make no sens in a dynamically
typed language, where type informations belong to the LHS of a binding,
not the RHS.

I guess that what you want is to build a string out of a list of
strings. If so, the answer is (assuming you want a newline between each
element of the list):

print "\n".join(str1)

[Hitesh]

On Mar 19, 8:11 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
[e-mail]:

Hitesh a écrit :

On Mar 18, 12:28 am, "Hitesh" <[e-mail]:

Hi,

I've a list like this..
str1 = ['this is a test string inside list']

I am doing it this way.

for s in str1:
temp_s = s
print temp_s

Why this useless temp_s var ?

Any better suggestions?

Thank you,
hj

I want to cast value of a list into string..

There's no "cast" in Python. It would make no sens in a dynamically
typed language, where type informations belong to the LHS of a binding,
not the RHS.

I guess that what you want is to build a string out of a list of
strings. If so, the answer is (assuming you want a newline between each
element of the list):

print "\n".join(str1)

Thank you guys. Yes that helped. :)

hj

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:11:09 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

There's no "cast" in Python. It would make no sens in a dynamically
typed language, where type informations belong to the LHS of a binding,
not the RHS.

Surely you have left and right mixed up?

x = 1
x = None
x = "spam"
x = []

The name x has no type associated with it. The object bound to the name
does.

--
Steven.

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Steven D'Aprano a écrit :

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:11:09 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

>There's no "cast" in Python. It would make no sens in a dynamically
typed language, where type informations belong to the LHS of a binding,
not the RHS.

Surely you have left and right mixed up?

(rereading)
(ashamed)
Obviously, yes.
Thanks for the correction.

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:01:36 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

Steven D'Aprano a écrit :

>On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:11:09 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

>>There's no "cast" in Python. It would make no sens in a dynamically
typed language, where type informations belong to the LHS of a binding,
not the RHS.

Surely you have left and right mixed up?

(rereading)
(ashamed)
Obviously, yes.
Thanks for the correction.

That's okay, I have a big "L" and "R" written on the bottom of my shoes.
Of course, they didn't do me any good until I got a "L" and "R" tattooed
on my feet.

--
Steven.

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"Steven D'Aprano" <st***@REMOVE.THIS.cyber...ce.com.auwrote:

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:01:36 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

8< ------- confusion about left and right ------------

It gets worse.

When you work on a lathe,
a "right hand cutting tool"
has its cutting edge
on the left...

And the worse part is that
its for good reason.

- Hendrik