Comment on draft PEP for deprecating six builtins

[Duncan Booth]

Bernhard Herzog <bh at intevation.de> wrote in 
news:6qn0vlbcpk.fsf at abnoba.intevation.de:

>>     Ugh, that looks to me as appropriate as join() being a string
>>     method / module function.
> 
> Exactly. I still think that join as a function makes more sense than as
> a string method and for the same reasons as stated for chr above. Even
> if join is implemented as a string method.

I prefer writing
   str.join(' ', aList)
rather than
   ' '.join(aList)

When the string is a literal I find the former reads much better. YMMV

Sometimes though I take advantage of it being a method:
   joinlines = '\n'.join
   ...
   s = joinlines(aList)

Note that there was a suggestion on the python-dev list to move the 
remaining objects in the string module into the str type and then deprecate 
the string module. So str.hexdigits instead of string.hexdigits etc.

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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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