I'd love to know why calling ''.join() on a list of encoded strings automatically results in converting to the default encoding. First of all, it's undocumented, so If I didn't have non-ascii characters in my utf-8 data, I'd never have known until one day I did, and then the code would break. Secondly you can't override (for valid reasons) the default encoding, so that's not a way around it. So ''.join becomes pretty useless when dealing with the real (non-ascii) world.
I won't miss the str class when it finally goes (in v3?). How can I join my encoded strings effeciently? Thanks, -Sandra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
