String.join revisited (URGENT for 1.6)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Courageous wrote:
> 
> > >   words = ["foo", "bar", "baz"]
> > >   print words.join(" ")
> 
> > print ( "foo", "bar" ).join(" ")
> 
> I've thought about this for a bit, and it's quite clear to me that
> these idoms are the natural representation for this. Whether or
> not their implementation in python is easily/optimally acheived
> is another issue altogether, but this representation is natural
> and, IMO, right one.

...and here we go, back to the beginning of this thread...

as people have pointed out a couple of hundred times in this thread,
lists and tuples are *heterogeneous* containers. you can put *any*
kind of Python object in them, not just strings.

for other arguments against your "natural" and "righteous" solution,
check the archives.

or don't -- I'm sure your time could be better spent on hunting down
real problems in the 1.6 alphas...

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