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Doesn't repeating a string in a list of strings work the same as printing it?
I am reading through the Book Hacker News in Python 3.0 and the author is mentioning that it's better to repeatedly print a string rather than putting it in a list to avoid the overhead of creating the string each time. However, it also says this:
"As soon as the string is in a list, Python starts to look it up again"
Why does adding a string to a list cause Python to look it up again? Isn't simply repeating the same string in a list faster than iterating over it?
A:
Python's string objects are immutable.
Lets assume that the string is 'Hello, I am a string', and you put it in a list like so:
x = ['Hello, I am a string']
Now you need to do look up the string in a dictionary (dict, specifically) to get the string's value (as the name is not known at the point of writing).
As such, for each string in the list, Python has to do a lookup in the dictionary (a database if you will) to get the string's value, and then this value has to be converted to a byte string (a bytes object) before it can be printed.
This is the only difference I can see.
A short example that demonstrates the difference between the two scenarios:
>>> x = ['Hello, I am a string']
>>> import sys
>>> sys.getsizeof(x)
100
>>> x = [x]
>>> sys.getsizeof(x)
36
As you can see, the first approach (just adding a string to a list) involves a lot more overhead than adding the same string to a list, as the string has to be looked up from a dictionary.
A:
You're right. One of the reasons is that Python 2.x strings aren't really first class objects in the sense that they aren't really assignable like other builtin types. They are immutable, and they don't implement hashable.
When you put them in a list, they get immutable so they can't be changed or modified.
If you really want to use a list, you should use an immutable type instead.
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