Python String Immutability Broken!

[Terry Reedy]

Ken Seehart wrote:
> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
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>> ...
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>> Actually, I am not complaining - I am asking for advice on the side
>> effects of what I am doing, which is replacing a bunch of bits
>> in what is essentially an output bit field with the corresponding
>> input bits at the same addresses read back from a simulated i/o
>> bus structure.  And I would also like to know if there is a better
>> way of doing this.
>>   
> Yes, there is a better way.  Use a character array instead of a string.
> 
> http://python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/tutorial.html#arrays

Which essentially is the bytearray type of 3.0.