String manipulation

[Fredrik Lundh]

Peter Bittner <bittneph at aston.ac.uk> wrote:
> Is there no such thing in Python as
>
>   mystring += "something"     // C-style

no.  python's not C.  python strings cannot be modified
in place.  in python, assignment is a statement, not an
operator.  etc.

(for more arguments pro and con, check the newsgroup
archives.  summary: it may be added some day, but there
are lots of stuff that are much more important...)

> (source of errors; typing mistakes)

have you just started using Python?

if so, come back in three months and tell us if you still
think this is a real problem (chances are that your list
of "real problems" will look very different -- see neel's
post for an example)

(if you've been using python for quite a while, check
the archives before replying).

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