[Python-Dev] RFC: Add a new builtin strarray type to Python?

[Simon Cross]

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> I'm writing this email to ask you if this type solves a real issue, or if we
> can just prove the super-fast str.join(list of str).

I'm -1 on hacking += to be fast again because having the two loops
below perform wildly differently is *very* surprising to me:

s = ''
for x in loops:
    s += x

s = ''
for x in loops:
    s = s + x

Schiavo
Simon