John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Oct 15, 4:02 am, Abandoned <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi.. >> I have a list as a=[1, 2, 3 .... ] (4 million elements) >> and >> b=",".join(a) >> than >> TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, int found >> I want to change list to a=['1','2','3'] but i don't want to use FOR >> because my list very very big. > >What is your worry: memory or time? The result string will be very >very very big.
It's an interesting mental exercise to try to figure out just how large that string will be, without using Python. I get 30,888,889 bytes... -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list