python string, best way to concat

[Mark Lawrence]

On 28/08/2014 09:30, peter wrote:
> I used to struggle with the concept of ''.join(('hello ','world')) - it seemed so convoluted compared with the intuitive 'hello '+'world', and I could never remember the syntax.  Also, for the strings I was generally using the performance penalty was infinitesimal, so I was just adding complexity for the sake of the abstract concept of a more 'pythonic' style.
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> Obviously this isn't going to change, but for concatenating short strings a and b is there any practical reason to avoid a+b?
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> Peter
>

Please quote context, there's some smart people on this list but none of 
them are mind readers :)

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Mark Lawrence