String.join revisited (URGENT for 1.6)

[Moshe Zadka]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Manus Hand wrote:

> But as the devil's advocate, tt just seems to me
> that [].join() could be implemented such that each member of the list is 
> str()'ed or repr()'ed 

Surely you don't mean "repr": that would simply give the wrong result.
But "str" is just as wrong: consider

u", ".join(u"Zadka", u"Moshe")

(Where "Zadka" and "Moshe" are written in Hebrew, using Unicode).

"str"ing *that* would simply be wrong.

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