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  On 5/29/2012 3:51 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

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   <pre wrap="">On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Victor Stinner

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    <pre wrap="">I also compared str%args and str.format() with Python 2.7 (byte

strings), 3.2 (UTF-16 or UCS-4) and 3.3 (PEP 393): Python 3.3 is as

fast as Python 2.7 and sometimes faster! (Whereras Python 3.2 is 10 to

30% slower than Python 2 in general)

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Very cool news!

Cheers,

Nick.

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  Very cool indeed! Thanks, Victor. I have programs that are just full

  of formatting operations, that will benefit from this work.<br>

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