On 2007-10-15, Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/15/07, Dmitri O.Kondratiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> To clarify my point:
>> reverse() is a lucky one - Python has variants of *this particular*
>> function both for lists and strings. Yet what about other list functions?
>> How in general, can I write a function that works both on list and string
>> types? Both are sequences, right? Why string is not a subtype of a list
>> then?
>
> Lists are mutable, strings are not, so so strings can't support all a
> list's methods.
>
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