[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 292 - Simpler String Substitutions (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 18:32:39 CEST 2004

[Clark C. Evans]

+1 to automatic str() -- this is a common newbie mistake and I can't think of a case where you wouldn't want this to happen

Apologies to Barry, but I'm +1 on auto-str() too. It's a string interpolation -- the user is explicitly asking for a string. If they made a mistake, it was in asking for a string to begin with, not in feeding it a non-string.

The same applies to string.join(iterable), for that matter.

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