[Python-ideas] The non-obvious nature of str.join (was Re: sum(...) limitation)

[Wolfgang Maier]

On 08/11/2014 02:20 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> As far as concat goes, I don't really see what advantage it has over
> joiner.join, except in teaching.  That might be enough for a builtin
> in this case, since concatenating iterables of strings is a pretty
> frequent operation in my experience.
>

I am not so sure about the benefit for teaching. I am using Python for 
teaching programming to absolute beginners at university and, in my 
experience, joiner.join is never a big hurdle. You have to explain it 
once, of course, but after that people, especially people not biased by 
other languages, do not have problems with it.

Wolfgang