[Tutor] Hex to Str - still an open issue

[Karl Pflästerer]

On  6 Feb 2005, kent37 at tds.net wrote:

> Actually, generating the digits from the right complicates the algorithm quite
> 	a bit. It's hidden in
> the Python version, but s = str(i % 2) + s is a relatively expensive operation here - it has to copy 
> all of s to make room for the new digit.

Because of that the standard answer is to write:

s = []
s.append(...)
return ''.join(s)



   Karl
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