On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:18:51 +0000, Tim Roberts wrote:
> John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Oct 15, 4:02 am, Abandoned <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hi..
>>> I have a list as a=[1, 2, 3 .... ] (4 million elements)
>>> and
>>> b=",".join(a)
>>> than
>>> TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, int found
>>> I want to change list to a=['1','2','3'] but i don't want to use FOR
>>> because my list very very big.
>>
>>What is your worry: memory or time? The result string will be very
>>very very big.
>
> It's an interesting mental exercise to try to figure out just how large
> that string will be, without using Python.
>
> I get 30,888,889 bytes...
I think you have an off by one error here. (One number, not one byte) :-)
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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