How clean/elegant is Python's syntax?

[rusi]

On May 31, 2:08 pm, Alister <alister.w... at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2013 20:38:40 +0100, MRAB wrote:
> > And additional argument (pun not intended) for putting sep second is
> > that you can give it a default value:
>
> >     def join(iterable, sep=""): return sep.join(iterable)
>
> I think that is the winning argument.

Yes

> Next question is what should be the default ("", " " or',')?

Hmm... Never thought there was any choice here except "".  Yes can see
the case for each.