On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 6:36 AM Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > This sounds quite an easy thing to do but I can't find how to do it > elegantly. > > I have a list of bytes class objects (i.e. a list containing sequences > of bytes, which are basically text) and I want to convert it to a list > of string objects. > > One of the difficulties of finding out how to do this is that 'list of > bytes' tends to mean a bytes object with a sequence of bytes in it > which is *not* what I'm after converting. :-) > > Obviously I can do:- > > bbb = [b'aaa', b'bbb', b'ccc'] > sss = [] > for i in range(0, 2): > sss.append(str(bbb[i]) > > but that does seem a bit clumsy. Is there a better way? >
Firstly, you shouldn't iterate over the range, but over the items themselves: for word in bbb: But this is a really good job for a list comprehension: sss = [str(word) for word in bbb] ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
