On Jul 20, 9:08 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > casebash <walkr...@gmail.com> writes: > > I have searched this list and found out that Python doesn't have a > > mutable string class (it had an inefficient one, but this was removed > > in 3.0). Are there any libraries outside the core that offer this? > > A mutable string would not (AFAICT) be usefully implementable as a > subclass of the built-in string types. So even if such a type existed, > it would not be useable with all the functionality that works with > strings. > > What is it you're trying to do that makes you search for a mutable > string type? It's likely that a better approach can be found. >
OK, I'll bite: where does the Python 3.x bytearray type fit into your taxonomy? At first glance it appears to be mutable and have a fair swag of functionality. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list