indirect references

[Paul Prescod]

shaleh at debian.org wrote:
> 
> How do I do this in python:
> 
> foo = 'string'
> bar = foo
> 
> somehow assign to bar and change the value of foo.

There are hundreds of ways to do something like this but the best one
depends on what problem you are trying to solve. The most
straight-forward is to use a list of characters rather than a string
object, but that is probably not the best way.

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than
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Amendment
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County",
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