[Python-ideas] The non-obvious nature of str.join (was Re: sum(...) limitation)

[Ethan Furman]

On 08/11/2014 02:17 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> The first thing people should learn is that the Python doc set includes a tutorial for beginners, a Reference manual for
> syntax, a Library manual for objects, and a collective Index for all of these.  The Index starts with a Symbol page for
> looking up thing like '*' or '|=' that do not work in search engines.

+1

Before using any language one should familiarize oneself with it, and what better way than the tutorial that comes with 
the language?

(And no, I've never read it -- but I have read others, and several books, and a couple classes to fill in the chinks. ;)

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~Ethan~