"Nick Coghlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > This seems to be the last relevant message in the thread: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/048516.html
> So it was tried, but we found too many weird corner cases we weren't > quite sure > what to do with. At that point, "explicit is better than implicit" kicked > in :) > A shame, since it was both faster and more convenient than using a list > comp. But the convenience wasn't worth the ambiguity of the semantics. Your experience, where you made an honest go of implementation, and the error catching argument, convince me that explicit is better for this case. I was thinking, 'Well, print autoconverts' (as documented). But it requires that each item be listed. And if there is any ambiguity, no harm since it is only meant for quick convenience anyway and not exact char-by-char control. Join, on the other hand, often gets a pre-existing list. If that is known (thought to be) all strings, then mapping str is a waste as well as an error mask. In not, map(str,...) is only 9 extra chars. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list