At 04:19 AM 12/11/2007, Kent Johnson wrote: >Eric Brunson wrote: > > Hi Amit, > > > > This is fairly inefficient. Because strings in python are immutable > > this approach causes a new string to be created every iteration. > >This is not true of CPython (the standard python.org release) since >version 2.4: >http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.4/whatsnew/node12.html#SECTION0001210000000000000000 > >Other versions of Python (Jython, IronPython, PyPy) do not have this >optimization AFAIK.
Concatenating strings is still VERY slow in CPython 2.5.1 compared to using join(), however. See <http://py77.python.pastebin.com/f66c3b3da>. Dick Moores _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
