join()

[echuck3 at my-deja.com]

In article <39DD9A9A.7130 at hvision.nl>,
  ivnowa at hvision.nl wrote:
> echuck at mindspring.com wrote:
>
> >
> > In Python 2.0, I was surprised to see join() had become a method of
> > string. I "naturally" expected it to be a method of list.
> [...]
> >   list.join(string)
>
> The problem is that string.join does not work on a list... it works
on a
> *sequence*. These are all valid:

Ah, I see your point. That brings me to my next suggestion: That types
can inherit from each other and that we make an abstract Sequence type
from which List, Tuple and possibly String all inherit from.

> I agree that something like list.join would have been more intuitive,
> though. This is not the only step away from being intuitive that
Python
> has taken lately.

What other things in Python have become non-intuitive in your opinion?

-Chuck
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