[Python-ideas] textFromMap(seq , map=None , sep='' , ldelim='', rdelim='') (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Oct 25 19:12:02 CEST 2010


On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Laurens Van Houtven <lvh at laurensvh.be> wrote:

Hm. I suppose the need for this would be slightly mitigated if I understood why str.join does not try to convert the elements of the iterable it is passed to strs (and analogously for unicode).

Does anyone know what the rationale for that is?

To detect buggy code.

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