How to “properly” print a list?

In Python 2:

mylist = ['x', 3, 'b']
print '[%s]' % ', '.join(map(str, mylist))

In Python 3 (where print is a builtin function and not a syntax feature anymore):

mylist = ['x', 3, 'b']
print('[%s]' % ', '.join(map(str, mylist)))

Both return:

[x, 3, b]

This is using the map() function to call str for each element of mylist, creating a new list of strings that is then joined into one string with str.join(). Then, the % string formatting operator substitutes the string in instead of %s in "[%s]".