From a16dcc7760dd1d6a3da4a9094894dc995eb63e39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:42:31 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add Join A List Of Strings as a Python TIL

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 README.md                        |  3 ++-
 python/join-a-list-of-strings.md | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ working across different projects via [VisualMode](https://www.visualmode.dev/).
 
 For a steady stream of TILs, [sign up for my newsletter](https://visualmode.kit.com/newsletter).
 
-_1865 TILs and counting..._
+_1866 TILs and counting..._
 
 See some of the other learning resources I work on:
 
@@ -1110,6 +1110,7 @@ If you've learned something here, support my efforts writing daily TILs by
 - [Install With PIP For Specific Interpreter](python/install-with-pip-for-specific-interpreter.md)
 - [Iterate First N Items From Enumerable](python/iterate-first-n-items-from-enumerable.md)
 - [Iterate Over A Dictionary](python/iterate-over-a-dictionary.md)
+- [Join A List Of Strings](python/join-a-list-of-strings.md)
 - [Keep A Tally With collections.Counter](python/keep-a-tally-with-collections-counter.md)
 - [Lint And Format Project With Ruff](python/lint-and-format-project-with-ruff.md)
 - [Load A File Into The Python REPL](python/load-a-file-into-the-python-repl.md)
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+# Join A List Of Strings
+
+Though joining a list of strings in Python is a basic task, I wanted to write
+about it because it is backward from how it is done in Ruby (which trips me up
+every single time).
+
+So, in Ruby I would do the following:
+
+```ruby
+> character = ["Gimli", "Dwarf", "Fighter", "Lvl 23"]
+=> ["Gimli", "Dwarf", "Fighter", "Lvl 23"]
+> character.join(" ~ ")
+=> "Gimli ~ Dwarf ~ Fighter ~ Lvl 23"
+```
+
+Notice that I call
+[`join`](https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/Array.html#method-i-join) on the
+list of strings, passing it the specific separator that I want to use.
+
+Python does it the other way around:
+
+```python
+>>> character = ["Gimli", "Dwarf", "Fighter", "Lvl 23"]
+>>> " ~ ".join(character)
+'Gimli ~ Dwarf ~ Fighter ~ Lvl 23'
+```
+
+The separator is the object that I call
+[`join`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.join) on, passing
+it the list of strings that I want to join.