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Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 09:39:58 -0600
Subject: Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax?
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On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:16 AM, F=E1bio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> wro=
te:
>> I think that is the winning argument.
>> Next question is what should be the default ("", " " or',')?
>
> join, comma_join, whitejoin, linejoin variants, with different defaults?

The more specific versions should not even have the parameter as an
argument that can be supplied.  Otherwise you could do:

comma_join(words, sep=3D';')

which is just unclear, and there is no reason to allow it.