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

KennyTM's answer is great. Also, if you wanted to make them comma separated or something, it'd be:

",".join(characterlist)

This would result in "a,b,x,d,s"