join does not call __str__

[Michael Hudson]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> writes:

> [Sasa Zivkov]
> > Somehow I expected that join method would use __str__ method to convert
> > instance to string...
> >
> > Your opinion ?
> 
> As has been said, it doesn't and that's the documented behavior.  I think it
> would be better if it did, but haven't prevailed against the forces of
> foolish consistency <wink>.

Ease of implementation, more like.  Start calling __str__ and you get
to have some of the fun we've having with dicts at the moment...

Cheers,
M.

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