John Henry wrote: > Sorry if this is a dumb question. > > I have a list of strings (some 10,000+) and I need to concatenate them > together into one very long string. The obvious method would be, for > example: > > alist=["ab","cd","ef",.....,"zzz"] > blist = "" > for x in alist: > blist += x > > But is there a cleaner and faster way of doing this?
blist = ''.join(alist) -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list