speeding up string.split()

[Remco Gerlich]

jcm <grumble at usa.net> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> It'd be Nice if the Python parser (or bytecode-compiler or whatever
> non-runtime thing is most appropriate) would translate the addition of
> two string literals into a single string.  Or maybe it does this
> already?  I haven't tried.

Python does *no* magic optimizations. It's completely WYSIWYG in that
respect. You tell it to add the two strings, Python does that, at runtime
like every other addition.

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Remco Gerlich