code: def list2string (inlist,delimit=' '):
      
      stringlist = [makestr(_) for _ in inlist]
      return string.join(stringlist,delimit)
docs: Converts a 1D list to a single long string for file output, using
  the string.join function.
  
  Usage:   list2string (inlist,delimit=' ')
  Returns: the string created from inlist