Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
Looking more closely, I think that the semantics are to concatenate the extra argument to the second-last item: ", ".join(["a", "b", "c"]) # -> "a, b, c" ", ".join(["a", "b", "c"], ", and") # -> "a, b, and, c" which would be the same as: ", ".join(["a", "b, and", "c"]) # -> "a, b, and, c" I'm not sure how this is useful. In English, there should never be a comma after the "and", and there possibly shouldn't be a comma after the "b" either, depending on context. # Should be: "a, b and c" or "a, b, and c" See the Oxford or serial comma: https://thegrammargirls.wordpress.com/tag/oxford-comma/ I'm going to close this feature request. It's too specific and the semantics don't seem to be very useful. But if you would still like to propose this, or a similar change, please discuss it first either on the Python-Ideas mailing list: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-id...@python.org/ or at the Ideas topic on https://discuss.python.org so that we can determine the required semantics and get a sense for how useful it would be in general. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43280> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com