string building

[Duncan Booth]

John Salerno wrote:

> Out of curiosity, is there any kind of equivalent in Python to the 
> StringBuilder class in C#? 

Yes, usually you use StringIO/cStringIO for this. It works for those 
situations where you just want to append to a string as you build it.

The alternative is just to build up a list of strings and then concatenate 
them all when you are done (using str.join).

If you really need mutable strings you can use the array module.