On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 8:44 PM Jamesie Pic <[email protected]> wrote:
> ['cancel', name].join('_')
>
This is a frequent suggestion. It is also one that makes no sense
whatsoever if you think about Python's semantics. What would you expect to
happen with this line:
['foo', b'foo', 37, re.compile('foo')].join('_')
List are not restricted to containing only strings (or things that are
string-like enough that they might play well with joining). Growing a
method that pertains only to that specialized sort of list breaks the
mental model of Python. Moreover, there is no way to TELL if a particular
list is a "list of strings" other than checking each item inside it (unlike
in many languages).
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