[Python-3000] What to do about "".join([b""])?

[Jeffrey Yasskin]

I'd naïvely vote for having "".join([non-strings]) raise a TypeError
unconditionally like it did in 2.5. I agree that it doesn't make sense
to special-case bytes here, but I don't know the reasons for changing
it to call str() in other cases.

On 11/1/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Currently (in 3.0), "".join(<seq>) automatically applies str() to the
> items of <seq>, *except* if the item is a bytes instance -- then it
> raises a TypeError. Is that proper behavior? The alternative is to
> uniformly apply str(), which for bytes returns a string of the form
> "b'...'" or "buffer(b'...')" (depending on whether the bytes are
> immutable or not). Given that we killed the exception for "" == b""
> earlier, I'm tempted to remove the exception. Any opinions to the
> contrary?
>
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> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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