[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 292 - Simpler String Substitutions
Tim Peters
tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 04:05:00 CEST 2004
[Clark C. Evans]
> This code-snippet is littered everwhere in my applications:
>
> string.join([str(x) for x in iterable])
>
> Its tedious and makes code hard to read. Do we need a PEP to fix
> this?
You won't need a PEP to replace it with the similar code-snippet from my code:
string.join(map(str, iterable))
Same thing in the end, but map reads quite well (perhaps even better
than a listcomp) in applications as simple as this.
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