How to insert space after every element in a list in Python

Question

I have a list 'decrypted_characters' that looks like this

['mathematician', 'to', 'present', 'a', 'proof', 'of', 'the', 'sensitivity']

I want it to look like a paragraph so I tried

decrypted_word = ''.join(decrypted_characters)

and when I print it looks like

mathematiciantopresentaproofofthesensitivity

How to add spaces after each element so that it looks like sentence? I want it to look like

mathematician to present a proof of the sensitivity

Thanks!

Possible duplicate of Concatenate item in list to strings

rafaelc
– rafaelc

2019-09-15 23:29:34 +00:00
Commented Sep 15, 2019 at 23:29 — rafaelc
– rafaelc, Commented Sep 15, 2019 at 23:29
So many dupes, pick one: here, [here], here, here etc

rafaelc
– rafaelc

2019-09-15 23:31:04 +00:00
Commented Sep 15, 2019 at 23:31 — rafaelc
– rafaelc, Commented Sep 15, 2019 at 23:31
Possible duplicate of Python concat string with list

OneCricketeer
– OneCricketeer

2019-09-16 05:45:02 +00:00
Commented Sep 16, 2019 at 5:45 — OneCricketeer
– OneCricketeer, Commented Sep 16, 2019 at 5:45

inertialgradient · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-15 23:28:01Z

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Use join:

In [4]: ' '.join(['mathematician', 'to', 'present', 'a', 'proof', 'of', 'the', 'sensitivity'])

Out[4]: 'mathematician to present a proof of the sensitivity'

edited Sep 15, 2019 at 23:28

answered Sep 15, 2019 at 23:26

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Siddharth C Over a year ago

What if the list is very long?

Sweet Chilly Philly Over a year ago

You can use the spread operator, decrypted_word = ' '.join([...decrypted_characters]) this will spread your array out, and the above suggestion should work nicely

Vashdev Heerani · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-16 05:41:53Z

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decrypted_characters = ['mathematician', 'to', 'present', 'a', 'proof', 'of', 'the', 'sensitivity']
decrypted_word = ' '.join(decrypted_characters)
print(decrypted_word)

Try this out.

answered Sep 16, 2019 at 5:41

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OneCricketeer Over a year ago

How is this different than the existing answer?

Vashdev Heerani Over a year ago

@cricket_007 this is close enough but I am just keeping same format with minimum change to that guy who asked question get it correctly with minimum effort.

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