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Python's approach is one of the most confusing ways to possibly do it. Not having proper, discoverable methods is super annoying, and I need to look it up every time anew I use Python because it's so unintuitive.

Of course you can write a generic version of `mkString` (as this method is called in Scala), so it's also just one method no matter the container count.

The Python weirdness is actually a direct result from the language lacking generics…


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bvrmnlast Wednesday at 8:53 AM

From typing perspective there is no sense to have Container[T].join() -> str for any T.

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