get-a-cup-of-coffee slow (fwd)
Grant Griffin
not.this at seebelow.org
Thu Aug 9 23:19:04 EDT 2001
Quinn Dunkan wrote:
>
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2001 18:12:31 -0400, Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters <mertz at gnosis.cx>
> wrote:
> >Grant Griffin wrote:
> >|Also, I tried writing something like this with a list (which are presumably more
> >|suited to being appended), but then I realized that I didn't know how to write
> >|the contents of a list to a file as a stream of bytes. There's probably a
> >|simple way to do that: what is it?
> >
> >''.join(lst) # Python 2.0+
> >string.join(lst,'') # Python 1.4+ (or something)
>
> There is also file.writelines(lst). It's not documented in my version of
> python, so maybe you're not supposed to use it, but why put it there then?
> It's been there for quite a while now.
OK, I think I've got it now. The mistake I made in my last experiment
(in another post) was making a list of numbers rather than a list of
characters.
many-thanks-to-all-ly y'rs,
=g2
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