python-dev Summary for 2004-08-01 through 2004-08-15

[Istvan Albert]

Brett Cannon wrote:


> Armin Rigo came up with a way to have string concatenation in a loop 
> (think ``for thing in iter_of_strings: concat_str += thing``) not be a 
> quadratic algorithm 

> But Guido didn't like the patch.  

Sometimes I just don't get it.

Here is a patch that removes one of the warts of python, does not introduce
any new behavior, makes python behave as it should have had in the first place,
yet it gets shot down on the grounds that it is 'too much of an improvement'
and that other python implementations might not be able to keep up
with it...

Istvan.