On Sep 17, 4:57 pm, Paul Rudin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Although it's not clear to me why the join method needs a sequence > rather than just an iterator.
Pure guess (I haven't looked at the code): the join method needs to know the length of the string it builds in order to allocate the correct amount of memory, therefore needs to traverse the iterable object it is joining *twice* (find the length, allocate, fill in)? -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
