1.6: TMTOWTDI (was Re: String.join revisited (URGENT for 1.6))
Justin Sheehy
dworkin at ccs.neu.edu
Fri Jun 2 16:22:20 EDT 2000
aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:
> I think this is one of the better arguments against ''.join(). The
> number of people who think this is "natural" is relatively small, *and*
> it goes against the Python philosophy of having only one obvious way to
> accomplish a given task.
If votes counted, I'd second this.
Other arguments aside, having both string.join() and ''.join() seems
unpythonic in its TMTOWTDIness, and making string.join() go away is
clearly not a good idea, so...
Making this method of the string object be a 'don't use this unless
you mean it' sort of thing (''.__join(), for instance) would be much
more palatable.
-Justin
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