On 2013-10-06, at 12:37 , Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > For me, the point about string "+=" being efficient (sometimes) isn't > that it is surprising compared to similar types, it's that it is > surprising for any immutable sequence type.
It's clearly nitpicking, but ropes are immutable sequences with O(1) concatenation. Clojure's vectors also have a more-or-less-O(1) append (technically it's O(log32 n)) and one could implement a Python version of them. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
