On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:20 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 2013-02-12 21:44, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> >> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:40:38 -0500 >> Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> But the only reason "".join() is a Python idiom in the first place is >>> because it was "the fast way" to do what everyone initially coded as "s >>> += ...". Just because we all learned a long time ago that joining was >>> the fast way to build a string doesn't mean that "".join() is the clean >>> idiomatic way to do it. >> >> >> It's idiomatic because strings are immutable (by design, not because of >> an optimization detail) and therefore concatenation *has* to imply >> building a new string from scratch. >> > Tuples are much like immutable lists; sets were added, and then frozensets; > should we be adding mutable strings too (a bit like C#'s StringBuilder)? > (Just wondering...)
Isn't bytearray what you're looking for? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
