[Python-Dev] Usage of += on strings in loops in stdlib

[Alexandre Vassalotti]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com>wrote:

> Would ropes be an answer (and a simple way to cope with string mutation
> patterns) as an alternative implementation, and therefore still justify
> the usage of that pattern?
>

I don't think so. Ropes are really useful when you work with gigabytes of
data, but unfortunately they don't make good general-purpose strings.
Monolithic arrays are much more efficient and simple for the typical
use-cases we have in Python.
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