string concatenation

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Peter Otten wrote:
> Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
> 
>> Where I would prefer the variant
>> 
>> str.join("", sequence)
>> 
>> as it is more readable for beginners (and demonstrates the concept of
>> invoking member methods as well ;)
> 
> If it prevents newbies from doing
> 
> import string
> string.join("", sequence)
> 
> so be it. Real men use "".join(seq) :-)

Maybe I'm not a real man, but the solution I like most (for code that
extensively concatenates strings in this way) is

join = lambda x: "".join(x)

Reinhold

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