yet another "Here's to 1.5.2" post

[Hans Nowak]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> Max M wrote:
> 
> > Michael Hudson wrote:
> >> Syver Enstad <syver-en+usenet at online.no> writes:
> >
> >>>Am I the only one in the entire world that thinks '\t'.join(mylist) is
> >>>elegant and natural?
> >>
> >> No.
> >
> > Well I would have found mylist.join('\t') more natural, but I can live
> > with the other.
>
[...]
> 
> joiner.join(sequence) was an EXCELLENT design choice...

I'm sure it was, and also useful and necessary. Unfortunately,
it's also seriously ugly, so I'm glad we can still use
string.join. :-)

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