[Python-Dev] OOps (was: No 1.6! (was Re: A REALLY COOL PYTHON FEATURE:)) (original) (raw)

Christian Tismer tismer@tismer.com
Tue, 16 May 2000 21:43:33 +0200

Skip Montanaro wrote:

Christian> While I have to say that >>>> " ".join("123") Christian> '1 2 3' >>>> Christian> is not a feature to me but just annoying ;-) More annoying than >>> import string >>> string.join("123") '1 2 3' ? ;-)

You are right. Equally bad, just in different flavor. gulp this is going to be a can of worms since...

a-sequence-is-a-sequence-ly y'rs,

Then a string should better not be a sequence.

The number of places where I really used the string sequence protocol to take advantage of it is outperfomed by a factor of ten by cases where I missed to tupleise and got a bad result. A traceback is better than a sequence here.

oh-what-did-I-say-here--duck--but-isn't-it-so--cover-ly y'rs - chris

p.s.: the Spanish Inquisition can't get me since I'm in Russia until Sunday - omsk

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