2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/bs4/element.py b/bs4/element.py
index 115ab24..5462592 100644
--- a/bs4/element.py
+++ b/bs4/element.py
@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ class PageElement(object):
     # to methods like encode() and prettify():
     #
     # "html" - All Unicode characters with corresponding HTML entities
-    #   are converted to those entities on output.
-    # "minimal" - Bare ampersands and angle brackets are converted to
+    #   are converted to those entities on output. 
+   # "minimal" - Bare ampersands and angle brackets are converted to
     #   XML entities: & < >
     # None - The null formatter. Unicode characters are never
     #   converted to entities.  This is not recommended, but it's
@@ -992,6 +992,13 @@ class Tag(PageElement):
         attribute."""
         return self.attrs.get(key, default)
 
+    def string_attr(self, key, default=None):
+        """The same as get(), but converts lists of values to strings."""
+        value = self.get(key, default)
+        if isinstance(value, list):
+            value = " ".join(value)
+        return value
+    
     def has_attr(self, key):
         return key in self.attrs
 
diff --git a/bs4/tests/test_tree.py b/bs4/tests/test_tree.py
index 354473a..f57255d 100644
--- a/bs4/tests/test_tree.py
+++ b/bs4/tests/test_tree.py
@@ -1286,6 +1286,10 @@ class TestCDAtaListAttributes(SoupTest):
         soup = self.soup("<a class='foo\tbar'>")
         self.assertEqual(b'<a class="foo bar"></a>', soup.a.encode())
 
+    def test_attribute_values_joined_into_string_through_string_attr(self):
+        soup = self.soup("<a class='foo\tbar'>")
+        self.assertEqual(b'foo bar', soup.a.string_attr('class'))
+        
     def test_accept_charset(self):
         soup = self.soup('<form accept-charset="ISO-8859-1 UTF-8">')
         self.assertEqual(['ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8'], soup.form['accept-charset'])