Why doesn't join() call str() on its arguments?

[Max M]

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Nick Vargish <nav+posts at bandersnatch.org> wrote:

> Why not have another method to do this?  I propose joinany which will
> join any type of object together, not just strings

 >>> l = [1,2,3,'four']
 >>> ','.join(map(str, l))
'1,2,3,four'

Is this really that hard to do, that you want it in the library?

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