Leo Breebaart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
That suggests to me an "obvious default" of the kind that exists elsewhere in Python as well.
I feel pretty much the opposite... If a non-string-type has managed to get into my list-of-strings, then something has gone wrong and I would like to know about this potential problem.
If you want to do force a conversion before the join, you can use a list comp:
', '.join([str(x) for x in l])
Nick "Explicit is better than Implicit"
Really ? Then why are you using python. Python or most dynamic languages are are so great because of their common sense towards the "implicit". You must have heard of "never say never" but "never say always" (as in "always better") is more appropriate here. There are many cases of python's implicitness.
What about
a = "string" b = 2 c = "%s%s" % (a, b)
There is an implicit str(b) here.
''.join(["string", 2]) to me is no different then the example above.
Huy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
