regex into str

[Peter Kleiweg]

Jeff Epler schreef:

> This is intended to be impossible.

That i svery annoying.

> Even if you could assign to str.__div__ (and this is very deliberately and
> specifically disallowed) you would end up disappointed, because strings
> are immutable.  That means there's nowhere to store "the last match",
> no way to mutate the string with the "/=" operator, and also that the
> interpreter is free to use the same storage for two equal strings.

This works:

    a += 'x'

So this should too:

    a /= 'x'




Is there a way to tell Python that '' should be something else
than str?

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