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Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings?

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On 08/02/2014 10:11, cstrutton11@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, February 8, 2014 3:13:54 AM UTC-5, Asaf Las wrote:
>
>>
>> note, due to strings are immutable - for every line in sum operation
>>
>> above you produce new object and throw out older one. you can write
>>
>> one string spanned at multiple lines in very clear form.
>>
>> /Asaf
>
> I think I going to rewrite this to build up a list of strings and then run a join on them at the end.  Each section can be conditionally built up with variable insertions as required.  This should be more efficient and will scale nicely as required.
>

An alternative is to use io.Stringio which is available in Python 2.7 
and 3.x.

Also would you please read and action this 
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What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? cstrutton11@gmail.com - 2014-02-07 23:41 -0800
  Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 00:13 -0800
    Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? cstrutton11@gmail.com - 2014-02-08 01:56 -0800
      Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-08 11:06 +0000
      Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 03:28 -0800
        Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 04:33 -0800
    Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? cstrutton11@gmail.com - 2014-02-08 02:11 -0800
      Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-08 13:34 +0000
  Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 00:35 -0800
    Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? cstrutton11@gmail.com - 2014-02-08 01:51 -0800
      Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-02-08 09:25 -0500
    Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-08 07:15 -0500
    Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.org> - 2014-02-08 09:42 -0500
  Re: What is the most pythonic way to build up large strings? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-08 09:51 +0100

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