Heiko Wundram wrote: > Am Mittwoch 24 Mai 2006 06:12 schrieb Tim Roberts: >> At one time, it was said that the "%" operator was the fastest way to >> concatenate strings, because it was implemented in C, whereas the + >> operator was interpreted. However, as I recall, the difference was >> hardly measurable, and may not even exist any longer. > > The difference doesn't exist anymore for CPython (if you join a lot of > strings)
Actually, the string concatenation optimisations only work in certain specific cases (although they are the most common cases). It is still definitely advised to append to a list, then join the list. Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
