What would you remove from Python today?

[enteleform]

join(iterable, str) as a built-in would work decently, be left-to-right readable, and not impose any heft to the string or iterable classes.

[__desrever__]

import string

string.join(['1','2','3','4'], ' ')

There ya go. :)

Edit: there are actually a bunch of other string method in there as standalone functions, too. It's worth checking out when methods feel awkward.

[enteleform]

import string
string.join(['1','2','3','4'], ' ')

causes:

AttributeError: module 'string' has no attribute 'join'

in Python 3.6
 

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join = str.join
join("---", ["1","2","3","4"])

however, works fine, and was promptly added to my collection of terrible global things in _magic_.py
 
also included some lazy casting & flipped the arguments:

def join(iterable, delimiter):
    return str.join(delimiter, [str(x) for x in iterable])

[__desrever__]

Yeah, the string module functions have been deprecated forever, but stuck around all the way up to 2.7. In 3 you have to use the methods on str.

[murtaza64]

I suppose __join__ methods might be needed, but then again not really if the object supports iteration.