Why " ".some_string is often used ?

[Erik Max Francis]

"Stéphane Ninin" wrote:

> Is there a reason to do instead of just returning join(text.split()) ?
> why concatenate " " to the string and not just returning the string
> instead ?

Because they're not the same thing unless you've already done

	from string import join

first.  join is not a builtin function.

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