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Re: better way for ' '.join(args) + '\n'?

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Date Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:26:02 -0500
From Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
To Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com>
Subject Re: better way for ' '.join(args) + '\n'?
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 09:49:50AM +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> General advise when assembling strings is to not concatenate them
> repeatedly but instead use string's join() function, because it
> avoids repeated reallocations and is at least as expressive as any
> alternative.
> 
> What I have now is a case where I'm assembling lines of text for
> driving a program with a commandline interface. In this scenario,
> I'm currently doing this:
> 
>   args = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
>   line = ' '.join(args) + '\n'

Assuming it's the length of the list that's the problem, not the
length of the strings in the list...

args = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
args[-1] = args[-1] + '\n'
line = ' '.join(args)

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better way for ' '.join(args) + '\n'? Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-10-26 09:49 +0200
  Re: better way for ' '.join(args) + '\n'? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-10-26 10:58 +0200
  Re: better way for ' '.join(args) + '\n'? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-26 09:36 +0000
  Re: better way for ' '.join(args) + '\n'? Hubert Grünheidt <hgruenheidt@t-online.de> - 2012-10-26 18:21 +0200
  Re: better way for ' '.join(args) + '\n'? Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> - 2012-10-26 16:26 -0500
  Re: better way for ' '.join(args) + '\n'? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-10-26 17:36 -0400
  Re: better way for ' '.join(args) + '\n'? Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> - 2012-10-26 16:42 -0500
    Re: better way for ' '.join(args) + '\n'? Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-11-03 01:26 -0700
    Re: better way for ' '.join(args) + '\n'? Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-11-03 01:26 -0700
  Re: better way for ' '.join(args) + '\n'? Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2012-10-27 11:26 +0200
    RE: better way for ' '.join(args) + '\n'? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-10-29 22:28 +0000

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