Re: suggestion for a small addition to the Python 3 list class

2013-04-21 Thread Terry Jan Reedy
On 4/21/2013 1:12 PM, Lele Gaifax wrote: "Robert Yacobellis" writes: I've noticed that the str join() method takes an iterable, Specifically, it takes an iterable of strings. Any iterable can be made such iwth map(str, iterable) or map(repr, iterble). >> so in the most general case I'm s

Re: suggestion for a small addition to the Python 3 list class

2013-04-21 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:09:20 -0500, Robert Yacobellis wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm an instructor of Computer Science at Loyola University, Chicago, and > I and Dr. Harrington (copied on this email) teach sections of COMP 150, > Introduction to Computing, using Python 3. One of the concepts we te

Re: suggestion for a small addition to the Python 3 list class

2013-04-21 Thread Lele Gaifax
"Robert Yacobellis" writes: > I've noticed that the str join() method takes an iterable, so in the > most general case I'm suggesting to add a join() method to every > Python-provided iterable (however, for split() vs. join() it would be > sufficient to just add a join() method to the list class)

suggestion for a small addition to the Python 3 list class

2013-04-21 Thread Robert Yacobellis
Greetings, I'm an instructor of Computer Science at Loyola University, Chicago, and I and Dr. Harrington (copied on this email) teach sections of COMP 150, Introduction to Computing, using Python 3. One of the concepts we teach students is the str methods split() and join(). I have a suggest