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Why is it not: 5wlfgALGbXOahekxSs9wlfgALGbXOahekxSs5wlfgALGbXOahekxSs ? With the string appended to the last element?

Matt McCormick
– Matt McCormick

2009-12-09 19:27:09 +00:00
Commented Dec 9, 2009 at 19:27
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One reason is this gives join the useful property of being the inverse of split (docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.split)

cobbal
– cobbal

2009-12-09 19:31:22 +00:00
Commented Dec 9, 2009 at 19:31
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If you want another delimiter, put an empty string at the end of your list. ','.join(['a', 'b', 'c', '']) gives "a,b,c,"

tgray
– tgray

2009-12-09 19:31:29 +00:00
Commented Dec 9, 2009 at 19:31
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OP was probably confusing string.join with os.path.join which indeed concatenates paths

Juan Campa
– Juan Campa

2014-01-28 17:33:41 +00:00
Commented Jan 28, 2014 at 17:33

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