Re: String concatenation vs. string formatting

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Has the same optimization been implemented for Unicode? The page
doesn't mention Python 3 at all, and I would guess that the realloc
optimization would work fine for both types of string.

Seems to be implemented for strs in 3.2, but not unicode in 2.7.
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