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Hi, is there a way to convert a list to a string value in ONE LINE? In other words, my script generates a directory path as shown below:

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fullPathName = mediaDir + project.GetName() + "/" + "footage" + "/" + dirLoc + "/" + newFileName

# usual line by line output
/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_C0010/FW_A01_C0010.dng
/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_C0021/FW_A01_C0021.dng
/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_C0190/FW_A01_C0190.dng

# I need the entire list in one line, seperate by a comma
'/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_C0010/FW_A01_C0010.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_C0021/FW_A01_C0021.dng', '/Volumes/RAID/Data/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_C0190/FW_A01_C0190.dng',

.. any ideas?

Thank you!

Python has a join function.

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string_val = ','.join(list_of_stringables)

Thank you for your input! ...after trying that I get a comma after every letter. But I think this is getting close. Any ideas?

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fullPathName = mediaDir + project.GetName() + "/" + "footage" + "/" + dirLoc + "/" + newFileName

The code above outputs this:
/Volumes/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_C0001/FW_C0001_000000.dng

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string_val = ','.join(fullPathName)
        print("String: " + string_val)

Adding the join function outputs this:
String: ,V,o,l,u,m,e,s,/,M,e,d,i,a,/,T,W,O,_,C,H,A,I,R,S,/,f,o,o,t,a,g,e,/,F,W,_,C,0,0,0,1,/,F,W,_,C,0,0,0,1,_,0,0,0,0,0,0,.,d,n,g

The output I would like instead is this (with an empty space after the comma):
String:
'/Volumes/Media/TWO_CHAIRS/footage/FW_A01_C0001/FW_A01_C0001_000000.dng',

It's because you're using join() on a string. You must supply a list to join like:

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>>> ','.join(['list','of','strings'])
'list,of,strings'