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

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Nick Vargish <nav+posts at bandersnatch.org> wrote:
>  I feel pretty much the opposite... If a non-string-type has managed to
>  get into my list-of-strings, then something has gone wrong and I would
>  like to know about this potential problem.

This is a good argument.

Why not have another method to do this?  I propose joinany which will
join any type of object together, not just strings

That way it becomes less of a poke in the eye to backwards
compatibility too.

>  Nick "Explicit is better than Implicit"

Aye!

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