[Python-Dev] String methods... finally

[Tim Peters]

> hmm.  consider the following:
>
>     space = " "
>     foo = L"foo"
>     bar = L"bar"
>     result = space.join((foo, bar))
>
> what should happen if you run this:
>
>     a) Python raises an exception
>     b) result is an ordinary string object
>     c) result is a unicode string object

The proposal said #b, or, in general, that the resulting string be of the
same flavor as the separator.