[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib/test test_string.py, 1.25, 1.26

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Fri Aug 27 03:46:24 CEST 2004


[Greg Ewing]
> It could be argued that joining a single-element list doesn't
> involve using the separator at all, so its type shouldn't matter.
>
> It could also be argued that joining with an empty string, of
> whatever flavour, is equivalent to just concatenating the list
> elements with no separator, so again the type of the separator
> shouldn't matter.

Since such arguments wouldn't prevail, I'd rather not bother.


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