How can I optimally concat a list of chars to a string?

Question

The data:

list = [\'a\',\'b\',\'x\',\'d\',\'s\']

I want to create a string str = \"abxds\". How can I do that?

Right now I am doing

Answer 1

>>> theListOfChars = ['a', 'b', 'x', 'd', 's']
>>> ''.join(theListOfChars)
'abxds'

BTW, don't use list or str as variable names as they are names of built-in functions already.

(Also, there is no char in Python. A "character" is just a string of length 1. So the ''.join method works for list of strings as well.)