<s>[INST] Convert a list of characters into a string If I have a list of chars:
a = ['a','b','c','d']

How do I convert it into a single string?
a = 'abcd'

 [/INST] Use the join method of the empty string to join all of the strings together with the empty string in between, like so:
>>> a = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
>>> ''.join(a)
'abcd'

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