Guido van Rossum wrote:
join() is special indeed, but what about the semantics we talked about last year (?)...
join(seq, sep) := seq[0] + sep + seq[1] + sep + ... + seq[n]
This should fit all uses of join() (accept maybe os.path.join).
This is much more general than the current definition -- e.g. join(range(5), 0) would yield 10. I'm not too keen on widening the definition this much.
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