In article <[email protected]>, Irmen de Jong <[email protected]> wrote: > >Personally I'm only using the join-style-concat if I know the number of >strings is rather large, or unknown. Otherwise I stick with just the >regular string concatenation or string formattting (with % or format). >Much more readable.
Generally speaking, I always use join() if I'm iterating and almost never when not iterating. The performance-killer is concatenation in a tight loop. -- Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." --Red Adair -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
