Re: [PATCH] Use cStringIO instead of array in DummyTransaction

Aahz <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:20:00 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.cheetah
Organization The Cat & Dragon
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
>
> +try:
> +    from cStringIO import StringIO
> +except ImportError:
> +    import StringIO
> +

It's not clear what the goal is.  IIRC, using ''.join() is roughly
comparable in performance with cStringIO (which one is faster varies from
version to version), and if for whatever reason cStringIO is not
available, StringIO is definitely going to perform worse.
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