List to string? Docstrings?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Skip Montanaro <skip at mojam.com> writes:

>     François>         import operator
>     François>         text = reduce(operator.concat, chars)
> 
> The normal idiom for smashing a list into a string is
> 
>     import string
>     text = string.join(chars, "")
> 
> but your method is just as effective.

I thought the `reduce' thing was supposed to be very slow?  Or at
least that's what I remember reading here.