Convert list item to string

Question

I'm very new to Python and have relied on PHP as my go to server side scripting language of choice for years now. I'm using Python's Itertools to generate a list of combinations of way that a 6 digit number could be arranged.

import itertools
import threading

def test(full) :
   #print full
   codes = list(itertools.product([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0], repeat=6))
   count = len(codes)

   for num in range(0, count):
       item = codes[num]
       print item

item is returned as what appears to look like an array. It's always a series of 6 number separated by commas and inside of parentheses.

(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

How can I get the above value to be formatted as is below?

012345

Thanks

Answer 1

This would be a nice way of doing that

>>> from itertools import imap
>>> ''.join(imap(str, item))
012345

Answer 2

What appears to look like an array is actually a tuple. But that is not crucial here, because you can use the str.join method to create a string out of the elements of any iterable (provided these elements are convertible to str):

>>> tpl = (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
>>> s = ''.join(str(i) for i in tpl)
>>> print s
012345

You can get more information on str.join by typing help(str.join) in the interactive interpreter.

Answer 3

>>> series = (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
>>> ''.join(str(x) for x in series)
012345

The above will give you a string with all elements from (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) tuple. You can also convert it to int type (leading zero won't be preserved):

>>> int(''.join(str(x) for x in series))
12345