Mutable Stings

[Griebel, Peer]

Hi,

I do understand that strings are immutable. This is the reason (I think)
that the class str does not define the methods e.g. __iadd__().

Now I had a look at UserString.py. It says that the class UserString
provides a wrapper class for immutable strings. Therefore it can safely
define the method hash(). (In contrast the class MutableString raises an
exception when hash() is going to be called.)

My problem now is that UserString does provide the method __iadd__ which
does an in-place modification of the string (self.data)! This would result
in a non constant hash value!

So my question: Is this correct - or did I overlook something?




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