Greg,
Absolutely *perfect* case for a dose of Python string concatenation
performance theory or, How To Join Strings Together Fast:
http://www.skymind.com/~ocrow/python_string/
HTH,
Andrew
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 17:29 -0600, Greg Lindstrom wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I'm creating fixed-length record lay
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 17:29:19 -0600, Greg Lindstrom wrote:
> One thought I had, which might lead to an addition to the language, was
> to use the struct module. If I could feed the pack method a format
> string then a tuple of values (instead of individual values), then I
> could create the fo
Greg Lindstrom wrote:
[...] I concatenate the field to the text segment. I have been led to
believe this is bad form because Python will copy the entire segment
each time I add a field. Up until now, it was not a big deal because
the segments had at most 20 fields. I have just been handed a r
Hello-
I'm creating fixed-length record layouts for various record translations
I need to perform. I have been using a home-grown object,
"FixedLengthRecord" for about 4 years now and am very happy with it.
Almost. The burr under my saddle occurs when I serialize the record.
Currently, I cr
