Re: Concatenate list values

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On 2015-02-23 07:58, loial wrote:
> Is there a quick way to concatenate all the values in a list into a
> string, except the first value?
> 
> I want this to work with variable length lists.
> 
> All values in list will be strings.

Using

  "".join(my_list[1:])

should work.

If it is an arbitrary iterable instead of a list (and thus can't be
sliced), you can use

  "".join(itertools.islice(my_iter, 1, None))

-tkc

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Concatenate list values loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2015-02-23 07:58 -0800
  Re: Concatenate list values John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-02-23 16:07 +0000
  Re: Concatenate list values alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-02-23 16:08 +0000
  Re: Concatenate list values Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-02-23 17:09 +0100
  Re: Concatenate list values Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-02-23 10:14 -0600
  Re: Concatenate list values Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> - 2015-02-23 10:14 -0600
  Re: Concatenate list values Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-23 17:13 +0000
    Re: Concatenate list values wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-02-24 02:30 -0800
  Re: Concatenate list values loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2015-02-24 00:37 -0800

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