Stringbuffer

[chris at onca.catsden.net]

On 4 Feb 2001, Joshua Marshall wrote:

> I'm plucking characters off a stream and concatenating them.
> Currently, I'm doing something like:
>
>    buf = []
>    while stream.more():
>       buf = buf + stream.read()
>    string.join(buf, '')
>
> Is there a faster way?  I'm thinking of writing a Stringbuffer
> class in C.  Or does a quick, reliable one already exist?

You could try buf.append(stream.read())

And... I dont know what you're trying to achive with string.join(buf,'').
Are you just adding a space?? :)


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