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On 8/10/2014 1:24 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Actually ... if I were a fan of the "".join() idiom, I'd seriously  
propose 0.sum(numeric\_iterable) as the RightThang{tm\]. Then we could  
deprecate "".join(string\_iterable) in favor of "".sum(string\_iterable)  
(with the same efficient semantics).

Actually, there is no need to wait for 0.sum() to propose "".sum... but it is only a spelling change, so no real benefit.

Thinking about this more, maybe it should be a class function, so that it wouldn't require an instance:

str.sum( iterable\_containing\_strings )

\[ or str.join( iterable\_containing\_strings ) \]