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

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 10:08 -0700, Aahz wrote:

> While I hate the way it looks, I never have gotten mixed up about the
> order of arguments since switching to ''.join(l).

Which is why

EMPTYSTRING = ''

...

EMPTYSTRING.join(seq)

looks much better.  But hey, yeah, a join() builtin would be fine if it
took the string arg first, so that

''.join(seq) == join('', seq)

-Barry

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