Convert empty string literal to string. Speed up creation of idmap.

5357c651 · Martin v. Löwis · bbc0568a · 5357c651
Commit 5357c651 authored Oct 14, 2002 by Martin v. Löwis
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--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -34,9 +34,10 @@ punctuation = """!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~"""
 printable = digits + letters + punctuation + whitespace
 # Case conversion helpers
-_idmap = ''
+# Use str to convert Unicode literal in case of -U
-for i in range(256): _idmap = _idmap + chr(i)
+l = map(chr, xrange(256))
-del i
+_idmap = str('').join(l)
+del l
 # Backward compatible names for exceptions
 index_error = ValueError