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Sun Apr 1 08:21:00 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/091912.html

I'm writing a program that reads individual lines of text from stdin, which
is filled by piping the output from another program into mine. I need
to collect the individual lines I've read into one large string. My first
thought was to do something like this: big_string = big_string + new_string.

In practice, will this be inefficient? That is, will Python malloc a new
big_string each time I add a line? Is there another way to handle this sort
of situation, say with a pre-allocated buffer of some kind?

Thanks,
Tony

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