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

[Nick Vargish]

"news.sydney.pipenetworks.com" <nytimes at swiftdsl.com.au> writes:

> I always wished computer science was more engineering then
> philosophy. That way there'd always be an obvious answer.

You don't have a lot of experience with philosophers, do you?

Most of them are quite willing to go on at great length about the
obvious answer to just about any question... You get a dozen obvious
answers with every twelve philosophers.

Nick 

p.s. I've been working on a philosophy degree for about... 15 years
now.

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print reduce(lambda x,y:x+chr(ord(y)-1),' Ojdl!Wbshjti!=obwAcboefstobudi/psh?')