Cristian.Codorean wrote: > I was just reading a "Python Speed/Performance Tips" article on the > Python wiki > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips > and I got to the part that talks about string concatenation and that it > is faster when using join instead of += because of strings being > immutable.
The idea is that you call join() once rather than calling += many times. You achieve this by placing all the strings you want concatenating into a single list, not by calling join() with multiple lists. -- Ben Sizer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list