"Dinesh B Vadhia" <dineshbvad...@hotmail.com> wrote
This was discussed in a previous post but I didn't see a solution. Say,
you have
for i in veryLongListOfStringValues:
s += i
In general avoid string addition.
(Although recent versions of Python have optimised it somewhat)
As s gets very large, how do you deal with this situation to avoid
a memory error or what I think will be a general slowing down
of the system if the for-loop is repeated a large number of times.
Avoid string addition.
join() is one way, a format string might also work - but I haven't
benchmarked that for memory or speed
fmt = "%s" * len(biglist)
s = fmt % tuple(biglist)
Just some ideas...
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