In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gregory
Petrosyan wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I understand this fact, but I wonder why
> writelines() works slowly -- I think C code can be optimised to work
> faster than Python one. Is it correct that writelines(...) is just a
> shorthand for
>
> for ch in ...:
> file.write(ch)
> ?
Depends on `...`. If it's a string then yes because a string is a
sequence of characters. But `writelines()` is ment for a sequence of
strings. It's the counterpart of `readlines()`. Then it's just a
shorthand for::
for line in lines:
file.write(line)
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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