How can I obtain the expected result below?
import glob
infiles = glob.glob('E:\\test\\*.txt')
print infiles
['E:\\test\\a.txt', 'E:\\test\\b.txt', 'E:\\test\\c.txt', 'E:\\test\\d.txt']
Expected result is:
'E:\\test\\a.txt','E:\\test\\b.txt','E:\\test\\c.txt','E:\\test\\d.txt'
My attempt is:
infiles = ','.join(x for x in infiles)
print infiles
E:\test\a.txt,E:\test\b.txt,E:\test\c.txt,E:\test\d.txt
print ','.join(map(repr, infiles))
You're looking for an output containing the repr representations of the strings in the lists, not the literal character contents of the strings. Mapping repr over the list gets you that.
Simply:
import glob
infiles = glob.glob('E:\\test\\*.txt')
print infiles.__str__()[1:-1]
print is actually print infiles.__str__() under the hood, and you only want to get rid of the [ and ]...
str built-in. Aside from stylistic issues, it correctly falls back to __repr__ when __str__ isn't present. That happens to not be an issue for lists, but remembering which types implement which magic methods is an unnecessary hassle.
str(infiles).