Python string append

Author: Pankaj Kumar

Python-3/basic_examples/strings/string_append.py

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+def str_append(s, n):
+    output = ''
+    i = 0
+    while i < n:
+        output += s
+        i = i + 1
+    return output
+
+
+def str_append_list_join(s, n):
+    l1 = []
+    i = 0
+    while i < n:
+        l1.append(s)
+        i += 1
+    return ''.join(l1)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    print('Append using + operator:', str_append('Hi', 10))
+    print('Append using list and join():', str_append_list_join('Hi', 10))
+    # use below for this case, above methods are created so that we can
+    # check performance using timeit module
+    print('Append using * operator:', 'Hi' * 10)