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

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.2716.1108582538.22381.python-list at python.org>,
Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
>
>I've proposed adding a "join" built-in that knows about the available
>string types, and does the right thing for non-string objects.
>unfortunately, the current crop of py-dev:ers don't seem to use strings
>much, so they prioritized really important stuff like sum() and
>reversed() instead...

You know where the patch tracker is....  ;-)
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