> On 30 Jan 2019, at 10:07, Jamesie Pic <j...@yourlabs.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 7:03 AM Robert Vanden Eynde > <robertv...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Raises an error. Why should: >>> >>> “”.join([2, “2”]) not raise an error as well? >> >> I agree > > What do you think could be the developer intent when they do > ",".join([2, "2']) ? > > If the intent is clearly to assemble a string, as it looks like, then > I don't find any disadvantage to automate this task for them.
The intent is not clear. How is the 2 to be formatted? I fixed a nasty bug recently where a join of a list of strings contained a non-string in some cases. If the str(bad_value) had been the default I would not have been able to track this down from the traceback in a few minutes. I'm -1 on this idea as it would hide bugs in my experience. Barry > > -- > ∞ > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
