On Jul 20, 2:57 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?
I just did a brief search on Python Packaging Index (pypi.python.org) and saw nothing. You might have better luck. I suspect there is not a mutable string class partly because there is little demand, partly because it'd be hard to make an object that is usable everywhere a string is. For instance, a third-party string object might not work with the re module. The core does have some classes that are kind of like strings but mutable. The array module can create mutable arrays of characters which are somewhat like strings. Depending on your use case some other things might suffice (such as mmap, io.StringIO, or even a list of characters). Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
