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		eru on Dec 6, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The death of if/else cascades, a lightweight alter... Is the second version slower because the string won't get intern-ed?

cma on Dec 6, 2009 [–]

Yeah, and the string must be reinterpolated every time (possibly barring some of the more exotic python implementations).

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