[Python-Dev] String methods... finally

David Ascher da at ski.org
Fri Jun 11 07:23:06 CEST 1999


On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Perhaps join() ought to be a built-in function?

Would it do the moral equivalent of a reduce(operator.add, ...) or of a
string.join?  

I think it should do the former (otherwise something about 'string' should
be in the name), and as a consequence I think it shouldn't have the
default whitespace spacer.  

cute-but-general'ly y'rs, david





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