How can you copy (clone) a string?

[Mike 'Cat' Perkonigg]

effbot at telia.com (Fredrik Lundh) wrote in 
<IZlC5.1602$d5.122653 at newsb.telia.net>:

>Max Møller Rasmussen wrote:
>> Just use slice:
>>
>> a = 'a'
>> b = a[:]
>
>>>> a = 'a'
>>>> b = a[:]
>>>> id(a)
>7834944
>>>> id(b)
>7834944
>>>> a is b
>1
>
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>
>

LOL!
There seem to be a good optimization :-)

Regards,
Mike