[Tutor] strings features versus lists

[Joel Goldstick]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 2:57 PM Patrick Frank <sfsoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> at the moment I mainly learn basics from the excellent book "Think
> Python". As I walked through chapter 10 (which is about lists) I
> wondered why are strings immutable? I would like to understand this
> design decision.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> P.
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I'm not a language maven, like some others here, but the first thing
that comes to mind for me is that immutable strings can be used as
keys for dictionaries.

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