[Python-Dev] RFC: Add a new builtin strarray type to Python? (original) (raw)

Simon Cross hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 19:23:19 CEST 2011

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:

I'm writing this email to ask you if this type solves a real issue, or if we can just prove the super-fast str.join(list of str).

I'm -1 on hacking += to be fast again because having the two loops below perform wildly differently is very surprising to me:

s = '' for x in loops: s += x

s = '' for x in loops: s = s + x

Schiavo Simon

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