[Python-3000] Automatically invoking str() in str.join()

[Georg Brandl]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Georg just added the idea of automatically invoking str() in str.join() to PEP 
> 3100 with a question mark on the end. I thought I'd responded when Talin first 
> brought it up, but couldn't find a record of that in the archive (this is why 
> one suggestion per message is a good idea ;)

As a side note, I named the thing "string.join()" because I didn't know what to
write. The str type will be dead, and I assume that the new string type will
have a different name.

Will it be "unicode"? Or "text"? Or "string"?

Georg