Problems with string and lists (searching and replaceing)

[jblazi]

"Anton Vredegoor" <anton at vredegoor.doge.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> >Do I oversee something?
>
> Yes, UserString. The documentation is a bit sparse, but reading the
> module itself provides additional information. Below is a quick test
> script.
>
> from UserString import MutableString
>
> def test():
>     s = MutableString("helo world")
>     print s
>     x = 'helo'
>     y = 'hello'
>     i = s.find(x)
>     s[i:i+len(x)] = y
>     print s
>
> if __name__=='__main__':
>     test()
>
> #output:
> #helo world
> #hello world

Thx.
It would be quite diffcult to explain this akward procedure to beginners.
especially when they see that this can be done so simply in C.
It seems that I have stumbled upon one of the few cases when Python is
cumbersome and difficult to use.

JB