Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around)

[Charles Hixson]

This doesn't cause a crash, but rather incorrect results.

self.wordList    =    ["The", "quick", "brown", "fox", "carefully",
                 "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy", "dog", "as", "it",
                 "stealthily", "wends", "its", "way", "homewards", '\b.']
for    i    in    range (len (self.wordList) ):
    if    not isinstance(self.wordList[i], str):
        self.wordList = ""
   elif self.wordList[i] != "" and self.wordList[i][0] == "\b":
        print ("0: wordList[", i, "] = \"", self.wordList[i], "\"", sep 
= "")
        print ("0a: wordList[", i, "][1] = \"", self.wordList[i][1], 
"\"", sep = "")
        tmp    =    self.wordList[i][1]             ## !! Kludge -- 
remove tmp to see the error
        self.wordList[i]    =    tmp + self.wordList[i][1:-1]  ## !! 
Kludge -- remove tmp + to see the error
        print ("1: wordList[", i, "] = \"", self.wordList[i], "\"", sep 
= "")
        print    ("len(wordList[", i, "]) = ", len(self.wordList[i]) )

-- 
Charles Hixson