[Tutor] Best way to convert list of ints to a string?

[Dick Moores]

I have the feeling that I've either forgotten (or never knew) some basic
Python built-in or something, but in case I haven't, what's the best way
to convert a list of integers to a string?  Here are two I've come
up with. Although intListToString2() is the more Pythonic,
intListToString1() is the faster, unless intList is very long, or has big
integers.
def intListToString1(intList):
    s = ""
    for n in intList:
        s = s + str(n)
    return s
    
def intListToString2(intList):
    lst = []
    for y in intList:
        lst.append(str(y))
    return "".join(lst)
But have I missed something?
Dick Moores

          
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