Why doesn't join() call str() on its arguments?

[Nick Coghlan]

news.sydney.pipenetworks.com wrote:
> I see your point but I'm not totally convinced  I don't understand 
> unicode that well so I'll just be quiet now.

Unicode is horrible, but better than the available alternatives when it comes to 
character sets with more than 128 characters :)

> Your point about int and long vs str and unicode is interesting though. 
> Does it mean str and unicode will some time in the future be unified 
> once all the differences are sorted out ?

Eventually, all Python text strings will be unicode, with a separate type for 
manipulating a sequence of bytes. That's a long way away, though.

Cheers,
Nick.

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