#https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/python-string-split-and-join #http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8270092/python-remove-all-whitespace-in-a-string #http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1876191/explain-python-join li = ['server=mpilgrim', 'uid=sa', 'database=master', 'pwd=secret'] s = ";".join(li) print s #'server=mpilgrim;uid=sa;database=master;pwd=secret' s.split(";") #['server=mpilgrim', 'uid=sa', 'database=master', 'pwd=secret'] s.split(";", 1) #['server=mpilgrim', 'uid=sa;database=master;pwd=secret'] s.split("=") #['server', 'mpilgrim;uid', 'sa;database', 'master;pwd', 'secret'] s.split() #['server=mpilgrim;uid=sa;database=master;pwd=secret'] s = ",".join(li) print s #'server=mpilgrim,uid=sa,database=master,pwd=secret' str(li).strip('[]') #"'server=mpilgrim', 'uid=sa', 'database=master', 'pwd=secret'" print s.split(",") print str(li).strip('[]') my_str = 'Today is Wednesday' print (my_str) print (' '.join(my_str)) print (''.join(my_str)) print (my_str.join("-")) print ("-".join(my_str)) print (my_str.replace(' ','')) print (my_str.split(" ")) print ("-".join(my_str.split(" ")))