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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Concatenate list values
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:07:02 +0000 (UTC)
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In <12821378-62af-4954-8b61-aa0738c5ff5c@googlegroups.com> loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

> Any help appreciated

big_string = ', '.join(my_list[1:])

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