Counter to the PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips, on python 2.4 the following string concatenation is almost twice as fast:
as:
On the win32 Python 2.4 I'm seeing the join sample above complete in less than half the time of the concatenating sample.
- -db
Usually the join() is located outside the loop, that code makes this extremely hard though (becuase of the self-referencing of the generated string). But that situation is not the norm. -- JürgenHermann DateTime(2005-08-01T06:07:51Z)