[Python-Dev] Re: Christmas Wishlist (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Dec 15 09:56:49 EST 2003

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 17:05, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

V. a join() builtin (join(x,s) becomes s.join(x)). All of the common sep.join() use cases read better without the string literal prefix.

Really? I predict everlasting confusion on argument order. It's not obvious from the method name whether the joining separator comes first or second.

My wish list:

V . Explicit global imports. I want a way to spell "import this from the global standard library even if there's a this.py in the local directory".

VI. PEP 318 or something like it.

-Barry