"Guido van Rossum" <guido@python.org> wrote in message
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> sum(sequence_of_strings) is out. *If* "".join() is really too ugly
(I
> still think it's a matter of getting used to, like indentation), we
> could add join(seq, delim) as a built-in. VB has one. :-)
Given that we already have the 'less ugly' alternative str.join(delim,
strseq),
both sum(strseq) and a hypothetical builtin seem unnecessary. And, an
explicit udelim.join(sseq) or unicode.join(udelim, sseq) nicely
handles mixed seqs without type guessing.
>>> str.join('', ['a','b','c']
'abc'
>>> unicode.join(u'', ['a',u'b'])
u'ab'
Terry J. Reedy
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