[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 292 - Simpler String Substitutions

[Tim Peters]

[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.