bug in string.join()?

Thorsten Horstmann thorsten at mats.gmd.de
Wed Feb 21 15:17:22 EST 2001


"Fernando Rodríguez" wrote:
> >>> string.join(("abcde"))
> 'a b c d e'
> 
> Is this the expected behavior, or is it a bug? O:-)

it's the expected behavior.
string.join concatenate all sequence types. So it iterates
over all characters in the string and joins them with the
default separator ' '. 
It's  not a bug - it's a feature!  ;-)

  -Thorsten


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