On 2019-01-29 23:38, Greg Ewing wrote:
Brendan Barnwell wrote:
Personally what I find is perverse is that .join is a method of
strings but does NOT call str() on the items to be joined.
Neither do most other string methods:
>>> s = "hovercraft"
>>> s.count(42)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: Can't convert 'int' object to str implicitly
Why should join() be any different?
And what if you don't want str, but instead repr, or ascii?
(An optional stringifying function, maybe? :-))
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