On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:57 AM, casebash<walkr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > 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?
It depends on how mutable you want your strings. There have been several patches proposed on python-dev over the years that do things like lazy concatenation and ropes. They were always shot down because the implementation or the semantics were very complicated. -Jack -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list