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

The thing you're looking for is str.join():

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

(Don't name your variable list, it's a builtin name.)