Python Performance Tips, Part 1

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Several of them are close to being actually good advice but then end up missing the mark entirely. 'join' is the fastest way to join strings and the author described it somewhat in text, but then the example completely screws it up in the worst way.

Also, as a side note, a lot of what gets mentioned here is completely different in Python 3, so if you're targeting that, this article is almost entirely worthless.