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 specify how we have to join the string. Instead of '-', we can use ' '

sentence = ['this','is','a','sentence']
s=(" ".join(sentence))
print(s)

Answer 2

A more generic way to convert python lists to strings would be:

>>> my_lst = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
>>> my_lst_str = ''.join(map(str, my_lst))
>>> print(my_lst_str)
'12345678910'

Answer 3

def eggs(someParameter):
    del spam[3]
    someParameter.insert(3, ' and cats.')


spam = ['apples', 'bananas', 'tofu', 'cats']
eggs(spam)
spam =(','.join(spam))
print(spam)

Answer 4

Use join:

>>> sentence = ['this','is','a','sentence']
>>> '-'.join(sentence)
'this-is-a-sentence'

Answer 5

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)