"Steve Poe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
Your explanation is very help. It does make be wonder the usefulness
of join with strings. Do you have a practical example/situation?
Its not really intended for strings but it needs to work that way to
be consistent because strings are just another type
"Steve Poe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
In [3]: people = [ 'Tom', 'Dick', 'Harry' ]
Okay, now let's join people to people and what do we get?
An error, join only works on a single string.
It joins the elements of a sequence of strings into a single
string using the 'owning' string. In some w
On 31/07/2008, Steve Poe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Your explanation is very help. It does make be wonder the usefulness
> of join with strings. Do you have a practical example/situation?
Kent's example is common: you might have a list of strings that you
want to display to the user, so you ca
Say I have a sequence seq and a string s, and I call s.join(seq).
Here's what it does:
s.join(seq) == seq[0] + s + seq[1] + s + seq[2] + s + ... + seq[-2] +
s + seq[-1]
So if you call 'abc'.join('ABC'), you get:
'ABC'[0] + 'abc' + 'ABC'[1] + 'abc' + 'ABC'[2]
which is:
'A' + 'abc' + 'B'
Does this look useful?
In [3]: people = [ 'Tom', 'Dick', 'Harry' ]
In [4]: ', '.join(people)
Out[4]: 'Tom, Dick, Harry'
Your confusion is in thinking about the string 'ABC' as a single
entity. For the purposes of join(), it is a sequence of three letters.
The argument to join() is a sequence of
> On 31/07/2008, Steve Poe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Okay, I can see the order of the join is the same as mine, but
>> the join still seems to be out of sequence. I am thinking it should be
>> 'abcABC' or 'ABCabc' not at the beginning, middle, and end of the
>> original string. At least, I
On 31/07/2008, Steve Poe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good point. I guess I am surprised a little that Python does not error
> on that you cannot assign a variable to a module name. I know I need
> to learn proper coding techniques.
Well, that wouldn't really work because you don't know what o
On 31/07/2008, Steve Poe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi tutor list,
>
> Just trying to add some clarity to the built-in function strings using
> join. The Python help
> screen says it returns a string which is a concatenation of strings in
> sequence. I am concatenating
> the string I am workin
