Help getting a string out of regex

[bowlofred]

You don't join things into a list. If you have one element you want to add, you .append() it. If you have another list you want to tack onto the end you .extend() it.

re.findall should return a list (of possibly identical items), so extending is I guess what you want...

match = ["match1", "match2"]
y = ["item1"]
y.extend(match)
print(y)

Output:
['item1', 'match1', 'match2']