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

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 04:05:00 CEST 2004

[Clark C. Evans]

This code-snippet is littered everwhere in my applications:

string.join([str(x) for x in iterable]) Its tedious and makes code hard to read. Do we need a PEP to fix this?

You won't need a PEP to replace it with the similar code-snippet from my code:

string.join(map(str, iterable))

Same thing in the end, but map reads quite well (perhaps even better than a listcomp) in applications as simple as this.

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