Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> added the comment:
There is a lot of doubt. That should clearly raise an exception because this function is intended to only operate on strings. Trivial types examples like that gloss over the actual problem. data_from_some_computations = [b"foo", b"bar"] # probably returned by a function ... later on, some other place in the code ... colon_sep_data = ":".join(data_from_some_computations) I guarantee you that 99.999% of the time everyone wants an exception there instead of their colon_sep_data to contain `b"foo":b"bar"`. Implicit conversions always lead to hard to pin down bugs. An exception raised at the source of the problem is very easy to debug in comparison. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43535> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
