Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Well, str.join() already optimizes this case to avoid copies:
>>> s = "x" * 50 >>> id(s) 139712615414000 >>> id(''.join([s])) 139712615414000 ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1747670> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com