gah! I hate the new string syntax

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry shaleh at valinux.com
Fri Mar 2 13:36:45 EST 2001


On 02-Mar-2001 Tim Peters wrote:
> [Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]
>> good ole:
>>
>> from string import join
>>
>> l = join(';', ['a','b','c']) # thanks, this is clear and obvious
>>
>> Please o' gods of python, do not deprecate the clean and obvious
>> syntax that is found in the string module.
> 
> Sean, that claim of "obvious" would have been a lot more convincing if you
> had managed to remember the correct order of string.join's arguments <wink>.
> 

As I said in other mails, forgive me, brain dead from reading WAY too much perl
this week.




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