Dominik V. <dominik.vilsmeier1...@gmail.com> added the comment:

It was not my intention to disturb the traffic on the bug tracker. My apologies 
if that caused any trouble. I also thought only people subscribed to the 
indicated topic (e.g. "Documentation") would receive a notification.

The docs pages mention that for enhancement proposals one should submit a bug 
report on the tracker:

> If you find a bug in this documentation or would like to propose an 
> improvement, please submit a bug report on the tracker 
> (https://docs.python.org/3/bugs.html).

I do care about the quality of Python's documentation and I think it could be 
improved in these cases. Often it is newcomers who consult these pages and they 
might be irritated by the mentioned parts.

I see how it would be distracting to include a more complex real world example, 
but using an example which performs apparently superfluous steps without any 
additional comment might seem strange. More experienced users probably won't 
need such an example at all. In addition it might make people falsely belief 
that `str.join` expects a list of strings rather than any iterable, and hence 
the explicit construction of the list.

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