string copying

[Aahz]

In article <AZ3xhtAObNp8EwwK at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk>,
Robin Becker  <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>> s='abc'
>>>> import copy
>>>> s is copy.copy(s)
>1
>>>> s is copy.deepcopy(s)
>1
>>>> s is 'ab'+'c'
>0
>
>Is there some special reason why python inhibits string copying. I
>suppose there's some attempt being made to make these constants. To make
>differing versions of 'abc' one has to resort to silliness like 'ab'+'c'

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