newbie question: getting rid of space in string :(

[Alex Martelli]

Martin Franklin wrote:
        ...
> as a matter of taste I would use this:-
> wholeString=wholeString+"<%s><b>%s</b></%s>" %(color, a, color)
> but as I say this is a matter of taste!

Building up a large string by + concatenation of many
small ones is Python's main performance trap.  If you
want to build things up, build them up in a list instead,
then at the end you can use sys.stdout.writelines to write
it out or ''.join to make the big string.


Alex