get-a-cup-of-coffee slow
Grant Griffin
not.this at seebelow.org
Thu Aug 9 16:35:57 EDT 2001
In article <9kurh302g4k at drn.newsguy.com>, Grant says...
>
...
>If so, is it because "s +=" is implemented as "s = s
>+", where the new one is always an appended copy of the original? (I guess I
>would hope that in the case of a string "+=" operation, Python would leave a
>little spare space at the end of the new string so multiple appends would not
>have to make a copy with _each_ append.)
OK, maybe that sort of thing isn't feasible due to the "immutable" nature of
strings.
if-there's-one-thing-we-can't-change-about-python-it's
-immutability-<wink>-ly y'rs,
=g2
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