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Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"?

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2011-12-15 14:22 -0700
Subject Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"?
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Tim Chase
<python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> For the fun/challenge?  Because you have a REALLY big data source that you
> don't want to keep in memory (in addition the resulting string)?

If you have that much data, then I question why you would want to
build such a large human-readable list in the first place.  Nobody is
going to want to read that no matter how you format it.

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How to generate "a, b, c, and d"? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-12-15 08:48 -0800
  Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-12-15 17:27 +0000
  Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-12-15 12:01 -0600
  Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-12-15 10:19 -0800
  Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-12-15 12:51 -0600
    Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-12-15 11:01 -0800
    Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-12-15 11:01 -0800
  Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-12-15 19:27 +0000
  Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-12-15 14:22 -0700
  Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-12-15 19:57 -0500
  Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-12-16 13:42 +1100
  Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-12-16 00:26 -0500

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