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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 14:35:24 CEST 2010

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Boris Borcic <bborcic at gmail.com> wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

With the str method, while some people may find it odd to have the method invocation on the separator, they typically don't forget the order once they learn it for the first time. OTOH, it is a pain that join and split aren't both methods on the separator. Imho, 71% of what makes it strange for join to be a method on the separator, is that split doesn't follow the same convention.

But split only makes sense for strings, not arbitrary sequences. It's the other way around for join.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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