How can you copy (clone) a string?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <u4s2rwts1.fsf at cs.uu.nl>,  <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>
>i = 0
>s = 1000 * 'x'
>mem = None
>while 1:
>    i = i+1
>    mem = (mem, s+`i`)

Blech.  If you're going to do a trick like that, just use a list.
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