On 2018-02-26, Kirill Balunov <kirillbalu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently `str.join` raises `TypeError` if there are any non-string values
> in iterable, including `bytes` objects. Is it an awful idea to implicitly
> _cast_ elements in iterable to their `str` or `repr` representation?

Yes, that's an awful idea.  PHP pulls stunts like that behind your
back, and it's a huge source of bugs.

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