A trivial question about print

[Alex Martelli]

Max M wrote:
        ...
> def newJoin(self, items):
>      return self.join([str(i) for i in items])
> 
> Is there any case where it isn't applicable at all?

Could be a disaster if any item was Unicode:

>>> print ''.join(('mapp','erch',u'\u00e8')).encode('latin-1')
mapperchè

vs:

>>> print ''.join([str(x) for x in 
('mapp','erch',u'\u00e8')]).encode('latin-1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>

but presumably you could have something subtler that used
str() or unicode() as appropriate (maybe not trivial to
determine what's "appropriate" in each given case).


Alex