It feels so good, so quick and not C!

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

> From: Thomas Wouters [mailto:thomas at xs4all.net]
> 
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:58:56PM +1100, Delaney, Timothy C 
> (Timothy) wrote:
> 
> > 1. It is *slow* (string concatenation).
> > 2. It uses a lot of memory (string concatenation).
> > 3. It is needlessly complex.
> 
> That's in increasing order of importance, right ? With a large gap
> between #3 and #2, and a somewhat smaller but still sizable gap
> between #2 and #1 ? :-)

Absolutely. Perhaps the list would be better as:

1. It is *slow* (string concatenation).
2. It uses a lot of memory (string concatenation).
3. It is needlessly complex.
3a. It does not use standard Python idioms.

Tim Delaney