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

>>> theListOfChars = ['a', 'b', 'x', 'd', 's']
>>> ''.join(theListOfChars)
'abxds'

BTW, don't use list or str as variable names as they are names of built-in functions already.

(Also, there is no char in Python. A "character" is just a string of length 1. So the ''.join method works for list of strings as well.)

Answer 2

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"

Answer 3

The thing you're looking for is str.join():

>>> L = ['a','b','x','d','s']
>>> ''.join(L)
'abxds'

(Don't name your variable list, it's a builtin name.)