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

Sat Feb 8 08:34:38 EST 2014

On 08/02/2014 10:11, cstrutton11 at 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 
https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to prevent us seeing the 
double line spacing above, thanks.
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