Answers for "how to turn a single string variable into a list"

how to convert list into string in python

list_of_num = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
# Covert list of integers to a string
full_str = ' '.join([str(elem) for elem in list_of_num])
print(full_str)

how do i convert a list to a string in python

lines2 = " ".join(lines) 	# Converts the list to a string.
							# This should work for writing to a file
file.write(lines2)