[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib string.py,1.46,1.47

[Greg Ewing]

Oh, no, nooo, nooooooo...

Is there time to stop this madness? 

Adrian Eyre wrote:
> 
> It doesn't feel like join is an instance method of a string.

I agree wholeheartedly: "".join(x) is just awfully
horribly awful! PLEASE don't implement it that way!

If you want to make join() easier to get at, make
it a built-in function. If you do that you'll probably
want to generalise the types it works on somewhat,
though. Convert them to strings, or concatenate them
using whatever '+' does on that type, or something.

Whatever you do, don't stuff it onto some arbitrary
type just for the sake of making it a method. Not
everything has to be a method... the world will not
end if there are some non-method functions left in
Python 1.6...

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