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Convert a list to a list of strings

Hi

I have a list like this: [GsaI, MaeI, Sse9I, MspR9I, SfuI, BssECI, Eco88I, Bsp119I, ...], but I need to convert all of its elements to strings. So, I want a list of strings, like: ["GsaI", "MaeI", "Sse9I", "MspR9I", "SfuI", "BssECI", "Eco88I", "Bsp119I", ...].

How can I do that?

Thank you

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updated by Ram Ram • written by albamaria.muniesa • albamaria.muniesa

I don't follow how you've made python store the value GsaI as something other than a string, could you elaborate please.

Were they integers in a list intVersion, say, you could do strVersion = [str(s) for s in intVersion]

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written by russhh russhh

This list is the result of a set, I've converted the set to a list, but if the elements of list aren't string I can't continue the code....

there's no way to convert the elements to strings in the list?

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written by albamaria.muniesa • albamaria.muniesa

We will help you, but we need to know more. Paste your code or something.

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Andrzej Zielezinski Andrzej Zielezinski

Can you please describe how you built a python Set that contains your elements? I tried making a Set that contains your items, but I can only add them as strings:

$ python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Jul  9 2014, 20:49:24)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.38)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from sets import Set
>>> REs = Set()
>>> REs.add(Eco88I)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'Eco88I' is not defined
>>> REs.add('Eco88I')
>>> print REs
Set(['Eco88I'])
>>>

Please add a snippet of code and maybe some debug statements that show what you have so far.

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written by Alex Reynolds Alex Reynolds

Hello albamaria.muniesa!

We believe that this post is does not fit the main topic of this site.

I do not understand how this could be ever related to bioinformatics, even if the strings had a biological meaning. In my view this is a basic python programming question.

For this reason we have closed your question. This allows us to keep the site focused on the topics that the community can help with.

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written by Michael Dondrup Michael Dondrup

I am closing this post as it doesn't fit this forum. Please google "convert elements in list to string in python" and you will find numerous results.

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Ashutosh Pandey Ashutosh Pandey

Hello albamaria.muniesa!

We believe that this post is does not fit the main topic of this site.

Not relevant to this forum

For this reason we have closed your question. This allows us to keep the site focused on the topics that the community can help with.

If you disagree please tell us why in a reply below, we'll be happy to talk about it.

Cheers!

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written by Ashutosh Pandey Ashutosh Pandey

Hello albamaria.muniesa!

We believe that this post is does not fit the main topic of this site.

I am closing it again!

For this reason we have closed your question. This allows us to keep the site focused on the topics that the community can help with.

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Cheers!

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written by Michael Dondrup Michael Dondrup

It seems like one can close a question multiple times!

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written by Michael Dondrup Michael Dondrup

1 answer

I have no idea how you got this kind of list, but try to iterate over the list and use the

str(element)

command.

example:

y =1

str(y)

returns:  '1'
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