Quickest way to build a long string?

[Janko Hauser]

I have just tested the usage of cStringIO.StringIO() against the list
approach and the list approach is the clear winner, especially with
longer loops, eg. more lines to append.

As surprising as this seems, so list.append() is the best way to go.

HTH,
__Janko

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