better way than: myPage += 'more html' , ...

Wed Jun 25 12:36:29 EDT 2003

Gobo Borz wrote:

> I remember reading somewhere that building the string with successive
> "+=" statements is inefficient, but I don't know any alternatives, and
> my search attempts came up empty. Is there a better, more efficient way
> to do it than this:
> 
> #---------------------------------
> htmlPage = "<html><header></header><body>"
> htmlPage += "more html"
> ...
> htmlPage += "even more html"
> ...
> htmlPage += "</body></html>"
> print htmlPage
> #-------------------------------------

Best to do something like

#---------------------------------

htmlbits = []
htmlbits.append("<html><header></header><body>")
htmlbits.append("more html")
# ...
htmlbits.append("even more html")
# ...
htmlbits.append("</body></html>")

# And now for the non-intuitive bit
print "".join(htmlbits)

#---------------------------------

HTH,

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