string concatentation

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Sun, 01 Apr 2001 12:21:00 GMT, Tony Rentschler <tonyr at walterr.bellatlantic.net> pisze:

> My first thought was to do something like this:
> big_string = big_string + new_string.
> 
> In practice, will this be inefficient?

Yes.

> That is, will Python malloc a new big_string each time I add a line?

Yes.

> Is there another way to handle this sort of situation,

Yes: e.g. append strings to a list and join them at the end
(using string.join or Python-2.0's ''.join(list)), or use the
cStringIO module.

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