Simon Cross wrote:
It struct me as odd that this one case shows such a big difference while the others show less of one.
I believe the %-formatting code has some optimisations in place where it realises it can just increment the reference count of the passed in string and return that, rather than having to build a new string object.
As for why you didn't see any differences in a couple of your tests: the .format() call wasn't actually substituting anything.
Unfortunately, the reasons why .format() doesn't complain about extra arguments never made it into the PEP. They can be found here:
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