On 4/3/06, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of curiosity, is there any kind of equivalent in Python to the > StringBuilder class in C#? Here's a quick description from the .NET > documentation: > > "This class represents a string-like object whose value is a mutable > sequence of characters. The value is said to be mutable because it can > be modified once it has been created by appending, removing, replacing, > or inserting characters." > > It's used for dealing with large strings that otherwise would cause > performance problems if used as regular string objects. I'm just > wondering if Python has something like this, or if it is even really > necessary. I know there is even some discussion on when exactly > StringBuilder becomes useful over regular strings, but I imagine at some > point it is good to use.
The StringIO module (and it's better performing counterpart, cStringIO) present a string as a file-like object and are the appropriate way to incrementally build large strings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
