string = ""
for e in list:
string += e
How would this for loop be expressed as a list comprehension so that it outputs a string?
string = for e in list: string += e How would this for loop
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string = ""
for e in list:
string += e
How would this for loop be expressed as a list comprehension so that it outputs a string?
The preferred idiom for what you want is:
Explained:
join()is a string method that gets an iterable and returns a string with all elements in the iterable separated by the string it is called on. So, for example,', '.join(['a', 'b'])would simply return the string'a, b'. Since lists are iterables, we can pass them tojoinwith the separator''(empty string) to concatenate all items in the list.Note: since
listis the built-in type name for lists in Python, it’s preferable not to mask it by naming a variable ‘list’. Therefore, I’ve named the list in the examplel.