On Jul 7, 1:45 am, ssecorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> h = "aja baja" # 'aja baja' is created and assigned to the name h
> >>> h += 'e' # Is the equivalent of: # h = h + 'e' # # In there, a h and 'e' is concatenated and assigned to # a new string object which is bound to h. The # original string object which contains # 'aja baja' is "garbage collected"[1]. > >>> h # printing h which contains the new string object containing 'aja bajae' > 'aja bajae' [1] actually python uses reference counting first to choose which object to delete -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list