Question

Output from dict to list then string:

newText = list()
for i in range(len(text)):
newText.append(coder[text[i]])
return ''.join(newText)

is there a way to directly make a string from a dict rather than making a list first?

Answer 1

You can access the values of a dict as a tuple using this method: dict.values().

return ''.join(dict.values())

Answer 2

I forgot to add that TEXT is a string, and CODER is a dict.
What I'm looking for is a way to extract dict values to a string based on some rule. This would seem to be a really basic method, since you can't assign values to an existing string. The values() method just gets all values. I could make a dictionary with the values I want and then use the values method, but I was hoping there is a way to make a string based on a rule directly.

Answer 3

newText = ''
for i in range(len(text)):
newText += coder[text[i]]
return newText

I think this concatenation will work, but I wonder if it is more or less efficient.