[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [Python-Dev] Re: String methods... finally

[Gordon McMillan]

Greg Stein wrote:
...
> And hey... people can always do:
> 
>   def strjoin(sep, seq):
>     return sep.join(map(str, seq))
> 
> And just use strjoin() everywhere if they hate the typing.

Those who hate typing regard it as great injury that they have to 
define this. Of course, they'll gladly type huge long posts on the 
subject.

But, I agree. string.join(['a', 'b', 3]) currently barfs. 
L" ".join(seq) should complain if seq isn't all unicode, and same for 
good old strings.

- Gordon