[Python-Dev] PATCH submitted: Speed up + for string concatenation, now as fast as "".join(x) idiom

[Fredrik Lundh]

Steve Holden wrote:

> instance.method(*args) <==> type.method(instance, *args)
> 
> You can nowadays spell this as str.join("", lst) - no need to import a 
> whole module!

except that str.join isn't polymorphic:

 >>> str.join(u",", ["1", "2", "3"])
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: descriptor 'join' requires a 'str' object but received a 
'unicode'
 >>> string.join(["1", "2", "3"], u",")
u'1,2,3'

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