This does what I expected: In [6]: list(iter([1,2,3,4,5])) Out[6]: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
But this appears to be doing a __repr__ rather than making me a nice string: In [7]: str(iter("four score and seven years ago")) Out[7]: '<iterator object at 0x0139F190>' What's the correct way to turn an iterator over bytes into a string? This works, but, ewww: In [8]: "".join(iter("four score and seven years ago")) Out[8]: 'four score and seven years ago' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list