computing with characters

[Boris Borcic]

Duncan Booth wrote:
> Torsten Bronger <bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> 
>> The biggest ugliness though is ",".join().  No idea why this should
>> be better than join(list, separator=" ").  Besides, ",".join(u"x")
>> yields an unicode object.  This is confusing (but will probably go
>> away with Python 3).
> 
> It is only ugly because you aren't used to seeing method calls on string 
> literals.

An obviously independent cause of uglyness is the inconsistency of eg
','.split() and ','.join()

Cheers, BB