On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Jason H <jh...@gmx.com> wrote:
>
>>> Why is it ','.join(iterable), why isn't there join(',', iterable)
>
>> Because join apply on a string, and strings are defined by the str class,
>> not by a specific protocol (unlike iterables).
> Why? I can iterate over a string. [c for c in 'abc'] It certainly behaves
> like one... I'd say this is inconsistent because there is no __iter__() and
> next() on the str class.
There is __iter__, but no next() or __next__() on the string itself.
__iter__ makes something iterable; __next__ is on iterators, but not
on all iterables.
>>> "abc".__iter__()
<str_iterator object at 0x7fce2b672550>
> I do think Python is superior in many, many, ways to all other languages, but
> as Python and JS skills are often desired in the same engineer, it seems that
> we're making it harder on the majority of the labor force.
>
"We" are making it harder? Who's "we"? Python predates JavaScript by a
few years, and the latter language was spun up in less than two weeks
in order to create an 'edge' in the browser wars. So I don't think
anyone really planned for anyone to write multi-language code
involving Python and JS.
ChrisA
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