[Tutor] append string

[Andreas Kostyrka]

somestring = "ABC"
somestring2 = somestring + "D"
somestring2 += "EF"

assert somestring2 == "ABCDEF"
assert somestring == "ABC"
assert id(somestring) != id(somestring2)

Basically, strings are immutable. If you need to append something to a
string, you need to construct a new string object with the new value.

Now if you are using this to collect huge outputfiles in pieces, one of
the common idioms in Python is collecting it in a list, and converting
to string at the end:

collector = []
for i in xrange(100000):
    collector.append((str(i) * 80)[0:80])

string = "".join(collector)
assert len(string) == 8000000 # ~8MB

Andreas


Am Freitag, den 21.03.2008, 17:04 -0700 schrieb elis aeris:
> how do I append to the end of strings?
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