Why is it string join list instead of list join string

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This has always confused me. It seems like this would be nicer:

my_list = ["Hello", "world"]
print(my_list.join("-"))
# Produce: "Hello-world"

Than this:

my_list = ["Hello", "world"]
print("-".join(my_list))
# Produce: "Hello-world"

Is there a specific reason it is like this?

Dec 2, 2020 in Python by Roshni
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1 answer to this question.

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It's because any iterable can be joined (e.g, list, tuple, dict, set), but its contents and the "joiner" must be strings.

For example:

'_'.join(['welcome', 'to', 'Edureka'])
'_'.join(('welcome', 'to', 'Edureka'))
'welcome_to_Edureka'

Using something other than strings will raise the following error:

TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, int found
answered Dec 2, 2020 by Gitika
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