From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:03:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Convert empty string literal to string. Speed up creation of idmap.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~3780
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5357c6511dcac17e1c80dbdeaea6c1016f44f4e5;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Convert empty string literal to string. Speed up creation of idmap.
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diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index 1d452edf95c6..ec796f63adb2 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -34,9 +34,10 @@ punctuation = """!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~"""
 printable = digits + letters + punctuation + whitespace
 
 # Case conversion helpers
-_idmap = ''
-for i in range(256): _idmap = _idmap + chr(i)
-del i
+# Use str to convert Unicode literal in case of -U
+l = map(chr, xrange(256))
+_idmap = str('').join(l)
+del l
 
 # Backward compatible names for exceptions
 index_error = ValueError