On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Gregor Lingl<[email protected]> wrote:

> That's simply not true in Python. Try it out!
>
>>>> word = "cat"
>>>> word[1] = "_"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
>   word[1] = "_"
> TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment

And the reason for that, undoubtedly, is that strings are immutable.


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