You make a very powerful point, Bruce. Much more so IMO than anyone else has so far. Unless anyone else can find a convincing rebuttal, I withdraw my proposal. Best wishes Rob Cliffe On 07/03/2023 21:49, Bruce Leban wrote:
On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 7:39 PM Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> wrote:
Tl;dr: Join strings together with exactly one space between non-blank
This idea is inappropriate for inclusion in the language. There are too many subtle details in how this should work as noted by others. To give an example which I hope clearly illustrates that this is not simple,
what should the value of 'ｆｕｌｌ' & 'ｗｉｄｔｈ' be?
* 'ｆｕｌｌ ｗｉｄｔｈ' * 'ｆｕｌｌ ｗｉｄｔｈ'
In case it's not clear, those are full width Latin characters which should be joined by a full width (ideographic) space U+3000. What should be inserted when the characters are Kanji (which doesn't usually use spaces) or Amkharic (which uses '፡' U+1361) or a mix of different character sets?
--- Bruce