Form list of strings from list of chars in Python

Question

I have a list of chars, something like

['t','u','p','l','e']

and I want to create a list of Strings out of it:

['tuple'

I tried to initialise an empty array and append or += to it but this still returns a list of chars. How can I concatenate strings?

Check [How-to-convert-list-to-string](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5618878/how-to-convert-list-to-string) for several ways to do it. — Praveen, Nov 21 '15 at 09:07
Actually `['t','u','p','l','e']` is already a list of strings. The strings are of length 1. — Paul Cornelius, Nov 21 '15 at 10:28

Vishnu Upadhyay · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-21T09:11:09.427

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All you need to join.

In [33]: [''.join(['t','u','p','l','e'])]
Out[33]: ['tuple']

edited Nov 21 '15 at 09:11

answered Nov 21 '15 at 08:54

Vishnu Upadhyay

I think `''.join(i for i in a)` isn't needed, this will confused OP(because I think OP doesn't know about list comprehension). – Remi Guan Nov 21 '15 at 09:00
Nit-pick, but the question asked for the result to be a list of strings (presumably always of length 1). Surrounding the expression with `[]` should be enough. – Ben Rowland Nov 21 '15 at 09:01
@KevinGuan Thanks for suggestion but i just did that to let OP understand what `join` is doing. – Vishnu Upadhyay Nov 21 '15 at 09:04
Then as I said that may confused OP, and I think the document is enough. – Remi Guan Nov 21 '15 at 09:05
@user9515 please mark correct if you find my answer helping. – Vishnu Upadhyay Nov 21 '15 at 09:28

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