> Of course, another right way would be to have mutable strings in Python. > I understand why strings need to be immutable in order to work with dicts, > but is there any reason why (hypothetical) mutable strings should be > avoided in situations where they aren't needed as dictionary keys? Python > has mutable lists and immutable tuples, mutable sets and immutable frozen > sets, but no mutable string type.
What's wrong about arrays of chars? Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
