Convert a vector<int> to a string

Definitely not as elegant as Python, but nothing quite is as elegant as Python in C++.

You could use a stringstream ...

#include <sstream>
//...

std::stringstream ss;
for(size_t i = 0; i < v.size(); ++i)
{
  if(i != 0)
    ss << ",";
  ss << v[i];
}
std::string s = ss.str();

You could also make use of std::for_each instead.

Using std::for_each and lambda you can do something interesting.

#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>

int main()
{
     int  array[] = {1,2,3,4};
     std::for_each(std::begin(array), std::end(array),
                   [&std::cout, sep=' '](int x) mutable {
                       out << sep << x; sep=',';
                   });
}

See this question for a little class I wrote. This will not print the trailing comma. Also if we assume that C++14 will continue to give us range based equivalents of algorithms like this:

namespace std {
   // I am assuming something like this in the C++14 standard
   // I have no idea if this is correct but it should be trivial to write if it  does not appear.
   template<typename C, typename I>
   void copy(C const& container, I outputIter) {copy(begin(container), end(container), outputIter);}
}
using POI = PrefexOutputIterator;   
int main()
{
     int  array[] = {1,2,3,4};
     std::copy(array, POI(std::cout, ","));
  // ",".join(map(str,array))               // closer
}

You can use std::accumulate. Consider the following example

if (v.empty() 
    return std::string();
std::string s = std::accumulate(v.begin()+1, v.end(), std::to_string(v[0]),
                     [](const std::string& a, int b){
                           return a + ',' + std::to_string(b);
                     });