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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:52:11 -0700
Subject: Re: Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> If I want to collect a sequence of arguments into a string, why shouldn't
> I be allowed to write this?
>
> =A0 =A0def func(parg, str(args)): ...

Obviously, because the correct syntax would be:

def func(parg, ''.join(args)): ...

:-P