On 2020-08-26 at 14:22:10 +0100,
Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have the following line in Python 2:-
>
> msgstr = string.join(popmsg[1], "\n") # popmsg[1] is a list
> containing the lines of the message
>
> ... so I changed it to:-
>
> s = "\n"
> msgstr = s.join(popmsg[1]) # popmsg[1] is a list containing the
> lines of the message
>
> However this still doesn't work because popmsg[1] isn't a list of
> strings, I get the error:-
>
> TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, bytes found
>
> So how do I do this? I can see clumsy ways by a loop working through
> the list in popmsg[1] but surely there must be a way that's as neat
> and elegant as the Python 2 way was?
Join bytes objects with a byte object:
b"\n".join(popmsg[1])
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