On 09/05/13 22:10, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
Hello,
I was just playing a bit with Python and I wanted to make a mutable string,
that supports item assignment. Is the way below the way to do this?
Guido's time machine strikes again:
py> from UserString import MutableString
py> s = MutableString("Hello world!")
py> s[-1] = '?'
py> print s
Hello world?
You can see the source code here:
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/UserString.py
and the docs:
http://docs.python.org/2/library/userdict.html#module-UserString
Note, however, that MutableString is (allegedly) very inefficient, and has been
removed from Python 3.x. (It seems to me that it cannot possibly be that much
more inefficient than using immutable strings. It's just a wrapper around an
immutable string with a few convenience methods.)
But really, unless you are dealing with truly humongous strings, you're better
off just sticking to the standard Python built-in string (unicode) type. And if
by chance you really do need a mutable string-like data structure, you probably
should look at something like ropes, implemented in C or Cython.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)
--
Steven
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