Dima Dorfman wrote: > 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.
just like join, except that it isn't: >>> string.join(seq, sep) u'axbxc' >>> sep.join(seq) u'axbxc' >>> str.join(sep, seq) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: descriptor 'join' requires a 'str' object but received a 'unicode' </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list