How to Join Strings in Python
Python’s built-in string method .join() lets you combine string elements from an iterable into a single string, using a separator that you specify. You call .join() on the separator, passing the iterable of strings to join.
By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand that:
- You use
.join()in Python to combine string elements with a specified separator. - A separator is the piece of text you want inserted between each substring.
- To join list elements, you call
.join()on a separator string, passing the list as the argument. .join()inserts the separator between each list element to form a single string.- The
.join()method returns a new string that is the concatenation of the elements in the iterable, separated