How can you copy (clone) a string?

[Johann Hibschman]

Bernhard Herzog writes:
> a possible solution for the problem if the string is at least two
> characters long:

>>>> t = s[:1] + s[1:]
>>>> s is t
> 0

There's always the straightforward

>>> import array
>>> str = "Hi, mom!"
>>> a = array.array('c', str)
>>> str2 = a.tostring()
>>> str2
'Hi, mom!"
>>> str2 is str
0

The array module does many magical things.  ;-)


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Johann Hibschman                           johann at physics.berkeley.edu