python-dev Summary for 2004-08-01 through 2004-08-15

[John J. Lee]

Richie Hindle <richie at entrian.com> writes:

> [Istvan]
> > what does:
> > 
> >  > It is not to be used in the stdlib ever.
> > 
> > mean in this context?
> 
> As I understand it, it means that no standard library code should take
> advantage of the fact that repeated s1 += s2 operations are fast in CPython
> 2.4.  Instead, it should use the ''.join() idiom.
[...]

The stdlib already *does* take advantage of the patch.

It began taking advantage of it the instant the code was committed,
because, for example, httplib.HTTPResponse_read_chunked() uses string
concatenation.

believe-it-or-not-ly y'rs,


John