Nick Coghlan wrote: > Edward Loper wrote: >> This is incompatible with the recent proposal making str.join >> automatically str-ify its arguments. i.e.: >> >> ''.join(['a', 12, 'b']) -> 'a12b'. >> >> I don't feel strongly about either proposal, I just thought I'd point >> out that they're mutually exclusive. > > Doesn't accepting objects that support the buffer interface come for > free with stringification? (My understanding of buffer objects is fairly > sketchy, so I may be missing something here. . .)
It's quite possible that I'm the one who was confused.. I just tried it out with string-based buffers, and for that case at least it works fine. I don't know about other buffers. So actually these two proposals might be compatible after all. -Edward _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
