I'm pretty new to Python and am completely confused by .join() which I have read is the preferred method for concatenating strings. I tried: strid = repr(595) print array.array('c', random.sample(

Dec 29, 2011 · In most cases you want to use your pythonic '.'.join() approach, but there are legitimate, pythonic uses for str.join() (formerly string.join()) too. For example, you sometimes want the joining …

Sep 17, 2012 · For handling a few strings in separate variables, see How do I append one string to another in Python?. For the opposite process - creating a list from a string - see How do I split a …

59 The map function in python can be used. It takes two arguments. The first argument is the function which has to be used for each element of the list. The second argument is the iterable.

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The reason for using str.join() is that adding strings together means creating a new string (and potentially destroying the old ones) for each addition. Python can sometimes optimize this away, but …

The algorithm Python uses to create the final string with str.join actually has to pass over the iterable twice, so if you provide it a generator expression, it has to materialize it into a list first before it can …

Dec 17, 2013 · 8 Your second join call is not os.path.join, it is str.join. What this one does is that it joins the argument (as an iterable, meaning it can be seen as f, i, s, h) with self as the separator (in your …

Basically, I am trying to join together the entries in a set in order to output one string. I am trying to use syntax similar to the join function for lists. Here is my attempt: list = ["gathi-109","

Jan 28, 2013 · The repr () function returns a printable representation of the given object and is crucial for evalStr () or exec in Python; for example you want to get out the Zen of Python: