very slow string concatenation (self.outtest +=s ) replaced with list app

aaronsw / html2text

Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.

http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/

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Closed abgoyal closed 12 years ago

abgoyal commented 12 years ago

very slow string concatenation (self.outtest +=s ) replaced with list append and a final "".join()

Processing a 5MB html file with this was taking ~2500 sconds before this patch. With this patch it only takes ~20 seconds.

aaronsw commented 12 years ago

Got it. Merged.