yet another "Here's to 1.5.2" post

[Michael Hudson]

Syver Enstad <syver-en+usenet at online.no> writes:

> "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:
> 
> > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > > " ".join(mylist) # is this perl or python?
> > 
> > *why* string objects have join method has been explained
> > over and over and over again, and should also be obvious for
> > anyone with some knowledge how strings and sequences work
> > in Python.
> > 
> > > whoever decided this is the new style should be shot, a lot
> 
> Am I the only one in the entire world that thinks '\t'.join(mylist) is
> elegant and natural?

No.

Cheers,
M.

-- 
 Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this
 insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written
 with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally
 exciting to debug.       -- Erik Naggum on Algol-style "call-by-name"