why the string function / module change

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

21 Feb 2001 22:32:46 GMT, Remco Gerlich <scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl> pisze:

> > If you are appending to a list object you use <listobj>.append(), and
> > not listmodule.append(<listobj>).  Similarly with dictionaries, and so on...
> 
> But lists and dictionaries are mutable, and files are as well, in a way.
> Strings are not.

Why should it matter?

> Nor are tuples and integers, and those don't have methods either.

I see no fundamental reason why they should not, except that Python
already expressed them as builtin syntax or builtin functions which
recognize builtin types (+, ==, len).

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