On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:04:12 -0700, alex23 wrote: > markscottwright <markscottwri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks Jan (and all other responders). I suppose I shouldn't be >> surprised - it's a known wart (http://wiki.python.org/moin/ >> PythonWarts), but it just looks so darn wrong. > > Don't forget that it's exceptionally easy to create your own mechanism > for doing this: > > def join(seq, sep): > return sep.join(map(str, seq))
Oh oh oh my brain hurts!!! Neither "seq" nor "sep" are real words, both are abbreviations, they differ by a single letter, and the two letters are mirror images of each other!!! This is a recipe for confusion when people get the order of sep and seq mixed up. Hopefully in real life code, you'd use a less easily confused function signature -- even just spelling out sequence and separator in full would reduce confusion to essentially zero. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
