[Python-Dev] Death to string functions!

[Fredrik Lundh]

Barry wrote:
>     JvR> So, making join() a builtin makes a whole lot of sense. Not
>     JvR> doing this because people sometimes use a local reference to
>     JvR> os.path.join seems awfully backward.
> 
> I agree.  Have we agreed on the semantics and signature of builtin
> join() though?  Is it just string.join() stuck in builtins?

+1

(let's leave the __join__ slot and other super-generalized
variants for 2.2)

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