[Python-Dev] Optimized string concatenation (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Tue Aug 3 16:58:56 CEST 2004

Hello Raymond,

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 10:24:03PM -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

The explanation is not hard. The CPython implementation can concatenate inplace two term expressions of the form a=a+b or a+=b. Expressions with more terms are not eligible for inplace concatenation.

No: a+=b+c is eligible. That's my problem.

Armin

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