computing with characters

[George Sakkis]

On Apr 30, 3:53 pm, Mel <mwil... at the-wire.com> wrote:
> George Sakkis wrote:
> > def join(iterable, sep=' ', encode=str):
> >     return sep.join(encode(x) for x in iterable)
>
> Actually
>
>         return encode(sep).join(encode(x) for x in iterable)
>
> lest you get TypeErrors for non-string separators.

Well separator is almost always a string literal or at least known to
be a string, so that TypeError has never occured to me.

George