Gregory P. Smith wrote:
>>I've never liked the "".join([]) idiom for string concatenation; in my
>>opinion it violates the principles "Beautiful is better than ugly." and
>>"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.".
>>(And perhaps several others.) To that end I've submitted patch #1569040
>>to SourceForge:
>>
>>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1569040&group_id=5470&atid=305470
>>This patch speeds up using + for string concatenation.
>
>
> yay! i'm glad to see this. i hate the "".join syntax. i still write
> that as string.join() [...]
instance.method(*args) <==> type.method(instance, *args)
You can nowadays spell this as str.join("", lst) - no need to import a
whole module!
regards
Steve
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