7stud schrieb: > On Mar 24, 8:30 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In case you are feeling that the ','.join(l) looks a bit jarring, be aware >> that there are alternative ways to write it. You can call the method on the >> class rather than the instance: >> >> jl = str.join(',', l) >> jl = unicode.join(u'\u00d7', 'l') >> >> ... the catch is you need to know >> the type of the separator in advance. > > When I try the latter example, I get an error: > > lst = ["hello", "world"] > print unicode.join(u"\u00d7", lst) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "test1.py", line 2, in ? > print unicode.join(u"\u00d7", lst) > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xd7' in > position 5: ordinal not in range(128)
You are mixing unicode with bytestrings here. make "hello" u"hello", same for "world". Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list