How to concatenate items in a list to a single string?

Question

Is there a simpler way to concatenate string items in a list into a single string? Can I use the str.join() function?

E.g. this is the input [\'t

Answer 1

We can also use Python's reduce function:

from functools import reduce

sentence = ['this','is','a','sentence']
out_str = str(reduce(lambda x,y: x+"-"+y, sentence))
print(out_str)