I don't think it should be a method at all. It's just a function: join(iterable, separator). It can also be implemented with reduce naturally: `reduce(lambda x, y: x + separator + y, iterable)`.
Oh yeah, it's horrendous, my point was just that it's functionally equivalent and makes more sense as a function than a method on either object. You can actually call it like this if you want, though: `str.join(separator, iterable)`.