"Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also found this from Guido: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/034853.html > And this, in the same thread: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/034854.html > > So, > The upshot is that complexity matters. The algorithm used in sum is > 'very wrong' for use with strings, and their is no clean way to switch > to the preferred method for strings.( ''.join() ).
The clean fix is to use cStringIO to build the result string. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
