QH> On 7/22/05, Francois De Serres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> what's the clean way to translate the tuple (0x73, 0x70, 0x61, 0x6D) to >> the string 'spam'?
QH> Use ''.join and chr() as others have pointed out. Here are QH> just-for-fun versions ;) .> t = (0x73, 0x70, 0x61, 0x6D) QH> (use string formatter): .> '%c%c%c%c' % t Or more generally: >>> t = (0x73, 0x70, 0x61, 0x6D) >>> '%c'*len(t) % t 'spam' but that's VERY perlonic python. Still, it's a technique that can come in handy when building, say, SQL queries on the fly. -- Patricia J. Hawkins Hawkins Internet Applications www.hawkinsia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
