Speed of string += string

[Mads Orbesen Troest]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 18:45:26 GMT, Alex Martelli wrote:

> Building up lists of strings with mylist.append(piece), then joining
> them together at the end with ''.join(mylist), is the canonical solution;
> others, which I've seen already pointed out to you, include using cStringIO.

Alex, thanks for your response. I had a hunch the += approach would be a 
performance killer. I'll try the list.append approach.

Regards,
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