Method much slower than function?

[Paul Rubin]

"sjdevnull at yahoo.com" <sjdevnull at yahoo.com> writes:
> take virtually the same amount of time on my machine (2.5), and the
> non-join version is clearer, IMO.  I'd still use join in case I wind
> up running under an older Python, but it's probably not a big issue here.

You should not rely on using 2.5 or even on that optimization staying in
CPython.  Best is to use StringIO or something comparable.