On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall@gmail.com>
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>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:33 PM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>> > On 2013-02-13 13:23, Lennart Regebro wrote:
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>> >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
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>> >>> I prefer "x = '%s%s%s%s' % (a, b, c, d)" when string's number is more
>> >>> than 3
>> >>> and some of them are literal strings.
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>> >> This has the benefit of being slow both on CPython and PyPy. Although
>> >> using .format() is even slower. :-)
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>> > How about adding a class method for catenation:
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>> >     str.cat(a, b, c, d)
>> >     str.cat([a, b, c, d]) # Equivalent to "".join([a, b, c, d])
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>> > Each argument could be a string or a list of strings.
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>> I actually wonder.
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>> There seems to be the consensus to avoid += (to some extent). Can
>> someone commit the change to urrllib then? I'm talking about reverting
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue1285086 specifically
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> Please re-open the bug with a comment as to why and I'm sure someone will
> get to it.

I can't re-open the bug, my account is kind of lame

(and seriously,
why do you guys *do* have multiple layers of bug tracker accounts?)