join()

[Hans Nowak]

Greg Ewing 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.
> 
> Quite a lot of people screamed blue murder about
> this at the time, and were ignored. Getting it
> changed now seems to be impossible.
> 
> My advice is to boycott those methods and continue
> using the string module, which fortunately is
> still there.

I second that. I never really saw the need for string methods anyway...
then again, maybe I'm just daft. :)  However, it's not unlikely that the
string module will be deprecated, like other nice stuff. So I don't know
if it's a good idea to boycott it. 

--Hans Nowak

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