Adam Souzis wrote:
As someone relatively new to python, it struck me as a language wart that i had to learn the form '"".join() as the proper way to do string concatenation. It violates the principles of OOWTI and its certainly not the obvious way to do string concatenation. This patch does not cover all the cases so we're still stuck with join(), but as long as it is not a documentated "feature" it will harmlessly improve the performance of countless lines of code where the coder is either untrained or too lazy to use join(). If its documented it'd just muddy the waters vis a vis join(), besides the issues with other Python implementation mentioned here.
If I understand correctly, you're suggesting that ''.join(strings) continue to be the recommended, portable, non-quadratic method for concatenating strings. And this patch be seen merely as a CPython optimisation for code which doesn't use the recommended string concatenation hack. . . Seems like a sensible way of looking at it to me. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | Brisbane, Australia Email: ncoghlan@email.com | Mobile: +61 409 573 268