Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Yes, these are things I've been wondering about. The use-case for an append-only StringIO is obviously overlapping with the use-case for using ''.join(). However, the implementation I'm proposing is better than ''.join() when writing very small strings, since there's a periodic consolidation.
> As a special case, you may consider that .truncate(0) doesn't really > need to realize the buffer first. True. Also, seek(0) then read() could use the same optimization. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13149> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com