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Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax?

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2013-05-31 09:43 -0600
Subject Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax?
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:38 PM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> And additional argument (pun not intended) for putting sep second is
> that you can give it a default value:
>
>    def join(iterable, sep=""): return sep.join(iterable)

One argument against the default is that it is specific to the str
type.  If you then tried to use join with an iterable of bytes objects
and the default sep argument, you would get a TypeError.  At least not
having the default forces you to be explicit about which string type
you're joining.

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Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Ma Xiaojun <damage3025@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 09:14 +0800
  Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-29 19:49 -0700
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 12:36 -0600
      Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 11:47 -0700
      Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-05-30 15:01 -0700
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 04:44 +1000
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 12:51 -0600
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-05-30 20:38 +0100
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 07:28 +1000
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 09:43 -0600
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-01 04:52 +1000

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