Python str.join() concatenation scrambling

[entorri]

coding a StreamWriter() in Python like builder = StringIO.StringIO() found this interesting
# FAILS
>>> str.join('as %s','dfg')
'das %sfas %sg'
# WORKS
>>> a = """a %s d %s f""" %('da' , 'da')
>>> a
'a da d da f'
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Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 20 2012, 22:39:59)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Linux foo 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:39:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux / 3.5 Bogomips

[xenopeek]

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That is not how you are supposed to use str.join(), you have given the iterable to join but not the separator string. http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.join. What are you actually trying to do? This works as expected:

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>>> " da ".join("adf")
'a da d da f'

[Jamesc359]

You need to remember that Python is heavily object oriented. As such a string is treated as an object and join is one of it's many methods.

As shown in the docs the str part of str.join() is used as a symbolic represention for a string object. Creating a real string object for use in actual code is simple.

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l = ["Hello", "World"] # List Object
s = " " # String Object

print s.join(l)
print "_".join(l)

This should produce;
Hello World
Hello_World

I hope that makes sense.

[entorri]

nope it doesn't

i'm pretty sure it's a memory scrambling bug maybe from python's build
* the data scrambles from the end of the string to be joint to the start of the initial string.

the sentence works for a SQLite3 SELECT * and is not working at any point it scrambles the last characters to the first of the sentence.

i'm not using Python SQLite statement joiner since it makes another whole different kind of string concatenation errors