On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> It occurred to me just a few minutes after sending my previous message that
> it might make sense to make string.join a method for lists and tuples.
> They'd obviously have to make the same type checks that string.join does.
as in:
>>> ['spam!', 'eggs!'].join()
'spam! eggs!'
?
I like the notion, but I think it would naturally migrate towards
genericity, at which point it might be called "reduce", so that:
>>> ['spam!', 'eggs!'].reduce()
'spam!eggs!'
>>> ['spam!', 'eggs!'].reduce(' ')
'spam! eggs!'
>>> [1,2,3].reduce()
6 # 1 + 2 + 3
>>> [1,2,3].reduce(10)
26 # 1 + 10 + 2 + 10 + 3
note that string.join(foo) == foo.reduce(' ')
and string.join(foo, '') == foo.reduce()
--david
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