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To convert a list to a string, use Python List Comprehension and the join() function. The list comprehension will traverse the elements one by one, and the join() method will concatenate the list's elements into a new string and return it as output.
Format lists and dictionariesThe Python format method accepts a sequence of positional parameters. If we pass an array or a List, then let's find out the result. The whole list gets displayed. You can also decide to print one item from the sequence by providing its index.
Lists are one of the most common data structures in Python, and they are often used to hold strings.
%s is used as a placeholder for string values you want to inject into a formatted string. %d is used as a placeholder for numeric or decimal values. For example (for python 3) print ('%s is %d years old' % ('Joe', 42))
You should take a look to the format method of python. You could then define your formatting string like this :
>>> s = '{0} BLAH BLAH {1} BLAH {2} BLAH BLIH BLEH'
>>> x = ['1', '2', '3']
>>> print s.format(*x)
'1 BLAH BLAH 2 BLAH 3 BLAH BLIH BLEH'
print s % tuple(x)
instead of
print s % (x)
Following this resource page, if the length of x is varying, we can use:
', '.join(['%.2f']*len(x))
to create a place holder for each element from the list x. Here is the example:
x = [1/3.0, 1/6.0, 0.678]
s = ("elements in the list are ["+', '.join(['%.2f']*len(x))+"]") % tuple(x)
print s
>>> elements in the list are [0.33, 0.17, 0.68]
Here is a one liner. A little improvised answer using format with print() to iterate a list.
How about this (python 3.x):
sample_list = ['cat', 'dog', 'bunny', 'pig']
print("Your list of animals are: {}, {}, {} and {}".format(*sample_list))
Read the docs here on using format().
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