Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 10:08 -0700, Aahz wrote:
>> -0
>>
>>
>>While I hate the way it looks, I never have gotten mixed up about the
>>order of arguments since switching to ''.join(l).
Me too on all counts including the -0.
>
>
> Which is why
>
> EMPTYSTRING = ''
>
> ...
>
> EMPTYSTRING.join(seq)
>
> looks much better. But hey, yeah, a join() builtin would be fine if it
> took the string arg first, so that
>
> ''.join(seq) == join('', seq)
>
Isn't that the same as str.join?
>>> str.join(', ', 'abcdefg')
'a, b, c, d, e, f, g'
In which case why would we need a builtin?
-tim
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