Python – Convert a deque of strings to a single string

In this tutorial, we will look at how to convert a deque object containing string values to a string in Python with the help of some examples.

deque in Python

The collections module in Python comes with a deque class that you can use to implement a stack or queue data structure in Python. Deques support thread-safe, memory efficient appends and pops from either side of the deque with approximately the same O(1) performance in either direction.

In simple terms, you can think of a deque in Python as a list-like data structure but with efficient insertion and removal of items from either end (left and right). This makes them very useful when implementing a stack or queue functionality in Python.

How to convert a deque to a string?

You can use the string join() function to convert a deque with only string values to a single string in Python. The idea is to join the string values in the deque together using an empty string with the join() function.

The following is the syntax –

# convert deque of strings to a string
"".join(queue)

Note that the above code will raise a TypeError if any of the values in the deque is not of string type.

Examples

Let’s now look at some examples of using the above syntax

Example 1 – Convert a deque of strings to a single string

First, let’s create a deque with some string elements.

from collections import deque

# create a deque
queue = deque(["a", "b", "c"])
# print the deque
print(queue)

Output:

deque(['a', 'b', 'c'])

Here, we imported the deque class from the collections module and created a deque queue with some string values.

Let’s now convert the above deque to a single-string value.

# convert deque to string
"".join(queue)

Output:

'abc'

Here, we used the string join() function to concatenate the values in the deque queue with an empty string.

Example 2 – Convert a deque of numbers to a string

If you apply the string join() on a deque containing non-string values, you’ll get a TypeError.

# create a deque
queue = deque([1, 2, 3])
# convert deque to string
"".join(queue)

Output:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [22], in <module>
      2 queue = deque([1, 2, 3])
      3 # convert deque to string
----> 4 "".join(queue)

TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, int found

To convert a deque of numbers to a single string, you can use a list comprehension to first get values in the deque as strings in a list and then concat them together using the string join() function.

# convert deque to string
"".join([str(val) for val in queue])

Output:

'123'

We get the values in the deque as a single string.

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