Carey, > Have you profiled an application and found string concatenation to be a > performance bottleneck? I would be surprised, but it's always possible.
The "application" is very simple - its essentially a finite state machine that parses complex RTF files. We read char by char and do lots of string concatenation as we move through our various states. Using lists for concatenation and Emile's technique of eliminating repeated attribute lookups, we have significantly improved the performance of our utilities. Malcolm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
