python list of chars to string code example

Example 1: how to join a list of characters in python

>>> a = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
>>> ''.join(a)
'abcd'

Example 2: how to save string characters into char array or list in python

fd = open(filename, 'rU')
chars = []
for line in fd:
    chars.extend(line)