On 2004-12-26, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > string methods are nice, but nothing groundbreaking, and their niceness is > almost entirely offset by the horrid "".join(seq) construct that keeps popping > up when people take the "the string module is deprecated" yada yada too > seriously. and what do the python-devers do? they add a "sum" built-in, > but no "join"? hello?
I happen to not mind the ''.join syntax, but if I did, I would use str.join('', seq) which is just like a join builtin except that it's not as easy to make it work on pre-string-method Pythons. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list