join [was: Re: converting an array of chars to a string]

[Delaney, Timothy]

> From: pinard at iro.umontreal.ca [mailto:pinard at iro.umontreal.ca]
> 
> [Duncan Booth]
> 
> > Writing ''.join(list) still sucks though.
> 
> JOINER.join(LIST) has some technical advantages, which are 
> much bolded by
> its proponents.  Despite theses advantages, it just remains 
> plain ugly.

Very much - ugly and unintuitive.

There are times that functions are better than methods. IMO this is one of
those times. I have been using 2.0+ for quite a while now, and have yet to
use ''.join() in preference to string.join(). Sure - I may suffer a slight
performance decrease - but my code is a lot more readable.

Tim Delaney