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Skip Montanaro wrote:

> Just> a.join(b, c, d)
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> Just> which I don't think is all that bad.
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> Yes, but
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> a/b/c/d
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> is nicely analogous to Unix pathname syntax.

But when the items are variables, what you read is not what you get.
Often you'll want (some) literals, and then you get

path = basePath/"a"/"b"/"c"

....and _that_ I find quite horrible...

(Did I mention that / usually means divide in Python?

Just

Just van Rossum <> writes:

> (Did I mention that / usually means divide in Python?

I believe you did... But doesn't % usually mean modulo in Python?

:^)

Nick

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# sigmask | 0.2 | 2003-01-07 | public domain | feed this to a python
print reduce(lambda x,y+chr(ord(y)-1),'Ojdl!Wbshjti!=obwAqbusjpu/ofu?','')

Nick Vargish wrote:
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> Just van Rossum <> writes:
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> > (Did I mention that / usually means divide in Python?
>
> I believe you did... But doesn't % usually mean modulo in Python?

I believe you'll find it's more common for it to mean "format",
but the point is that it is well understood that it means *either*,
depending on context.

Using / for this new concatenation-like behaviour is tantamount
to adding new syntax to Python again...

-Peter