computing with characters

[Terry Reedy]

"Marco Mariani" <marco at sferacarta.com> wrote in message 
news:1TYRj.27306$o06.18162 at tornado.fastwebnet.it...
| Torsten Bronger wrote:
|
| > However, join() is really bizarre.  The list rather than the
| > separator should be the leading actor.
|
| No, because join must work with _any sequence_, and there is no
| "sequence" type to put the join method on.

More generally, it works with any iterable, including dicts...