# My best Elixir in Python

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**Tags:** python\
**Created:** [December 31, 2023, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/my-best-elixir-in-python/60662 "2023-12-31T21:06:18Z")\
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Hello and welcome to the forums!

I have nothing wrong with cross-pollination so long as its adopted by a language’s community as a whole. I also whole-heartedly applaud doing experiments. But I’m otherwise with @Eiji’s here. Coming across business code that someone decided to write in an idiom completely foreign to the language I’m working in is the _worst_. I’m actually getting a little worked up thinking about the several times this has happened to me 😰

> [@dogweather](#):
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> I’m especially proud of that `text.split(" ")` call. It fixes a real problem. (The `split()` API in Python is unconventional and always a weird special case.)

Is that how it’s `", ".join(["Hello", "World!"])` or something? I’ve heard Pythonistas say this makes more sense (somehow). I honestly don’t know much Python, though!

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