[Python-ideas] textFromMap(seq , map=None , sep='' , ldelim='', rdelim='')

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Boris Borcic <bborcic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>
>> With the str method, while some
>> people may find it odd to have the method invocation on the separator,
>> they typically don't forget the order once they learn it for the first
>> time.
>
> OTOH, it is a pain that join and split aren't *both* methods on the
> separator. Imho, 71% of what makes it strange for join to be a method on the
> separator, is that split doesn't follow the same convention.

But split only makes sense for strings, not arbitrary sequences. It's
the other way around for join.

Cheers,
Nick.

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