When you have a int array and you want to concatenate them into a string. You might use this syntax, and python return you the TypeError. >>> a=[1,2,3] >>> print ' '.join(a) Traceback (most recent call last): File " ", line 1, in ? TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, int found How could we solve this problem? 1. Use a generator expression: >>> print ' '.join(str(i) for i in a) 1 2 3 >>> 2. Use imap method from itertools >>> from itertools import imap >>> print ' '.join(imap(str, a)) 1 2 3 >>> Wish this helps. regards, Stanley Huang