On Mar 14, 2005, at 11:20, Nick Coghlan wrote: ...
Somewhat ugly, but backwards compatible:
I realize you're mostly talking semantics, not implementation, but, as long as we're at it, could we pretty please have back the optimization indicated by...:
# Add the elements
if isinstance(value, basestring): return value + ''.join(itr)
for item in itr: value += item return value
...? This doesn't break bw compat since currently when value's a string sum would raise an exception...
Alex
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