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That's a known and widely publicised trait of Python.

In the early days, Python tutorial warned against adding to strings by doing "+" even though it works because that performed a new allocation and string copy.

What you were asked to do was use fast, optimized C-based primitives like "\n".join(list_of_strings) etc.

Basically, Python is an "ergonomic" language built in C. Saying how something is implemented in C at the lower level is pointless, because all of Python is.

Yes, doing loops over large data sets in Python is slow. Which is why it provides itertools (again, C-based functions) in stdlib.



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