[Python-Dev] Usage of += on strings in loops in stdlib (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Feb 13 08:14:33 CET 2013


On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:28:15 +0100 Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:

Am 12.02.2013 22:32, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: > For the record, io.StringIO should be quite fast in 3.3. > (except for the method call overhead that Guido is complaining > about :-))

AFAIK it's not the actual call of the method that is slow, but rather attribute lookup and creation of bound method objects.

Take a look at http://bugs.python.org/issue17170



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