copying a string???

[Aahz]

In article <3D64B97B.3BFDC676 at mill.co.uk>,
Joe Connellan  <joec at mill.co.uk> wrote:
>
>I have a function that alters the value of a string (written in C). (is
>that bad?)

Yes.  (Just to hammer the point in.)

>anyone know how I can really copy the string? or am I missing something
>above?

If you absolutely, positively, need a copy of a string, do this:

s2 = s1[:1] + s1[1:]

However, I should add the caveat that nothing in Python's language spec
guarantees that this will return a copy; it's simply deeply embedded in
the current implementation.
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