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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:22:37 -0700
Subject: Re: How to generate "a, b, c, and d"?
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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? =A0Because 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.