[Python-3000] Automatically invoking str() in str.join()

[Fredrik Lundh]

Tim Peters wrote:

> Let's see.  Should I watch a movie now, or search pre-string-method
> archives for quotes nobody really cares about?  While I think about
> that ;-), you could look in _this_ thread for:

well, designing things based on how old farts think things where back
in the old days isn't really optimal.  and as we've seen on python-dev,
there's nothing that old python farts do better than arguing for keeping
the status quo, no matter what that is...

> While I don't know for sure, I always assumed that was the true source
> of most of the relevant "how come my code doesn't work?!" complaints
> on comp.lang.python before string methods were introduced.

for the record, this just appeared on comp.lang.python:

    hello everyone! I can't seem to find a function that combines a list of
    items into a string with a seperator between the individual elements..

which, based on the law of design based on random sampling of c.l.python,
indicates that the current situation is not optimal.

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