Speed of string += string
Carl Banks
imbosol-1050170059 at aerojockey.com
Sat Apr 12 13:55:18 EDT 2003
Mads Orbesen Troest wrote:
> Hi;
>
> Given that strings are immutable, is it exceedingly slow (and memory
> spiking) to do a lot of "string += string" operations in one's code? IOW,
> does each and every += evaluation lead to a new concatenated copy of the
> previous string (now freed for garbage collection) and the new string, so
> that the longer the string to which stuff is appended is, the longer times
> each += operation takes?
Yes, I think. There are good ways to do this, though:
Build a list of strings, then join them together at the end.
Use cStringIO module.
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CARL BANKS
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