<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks for the info on xrange. Writing single char is just to get going > quickly. I knew that I would have to improve on that. I would like to > write chunks of 1MB which would require that I have 1MB string to > write. Is there any simple way of generating this 1MB string
megastring = 1000000*'a' # t < 1 sec on my machine >(other than keep appending to a string until it reaches 1MB len)? You mean like (unexecuted) s = '' for i in xrange(1000000): s += 'a' #? This will allocate, copy, and deallocate 1000000 successively longer temporary strings and is a noticeable O(n**2) operation. Since strings are immutable, you cannot 'append' to them the way you can to lists. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
