[Python-Dev] ''.join() again

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 12:05, Aahz wrote:
> Well, this means it's time for my regular reminder that I'm very far
> from an OO purist and I still hate ''.join().  OTOH, I've been using it
> recently for some of my own code, and while I'll never change my mind
> about its visual ugliness, I've got to admit that it has one cardinal
> virtue: you can never forget what order its arguments belong in.

And I'll do my semi-regular rant that 

	COMMASPACE.join(seq)

looks a lot nicer than

	', '.join(seq)

even to the point of starting to /like/ this idiom. :)
-Barry