Mutable strings

[Andrew Dalke]

Rob Tillotson:
> There already is one: array.  Mutable blocks of bytes (or shorts,
> longs, floats, etc.), usable in many places where you might otherwise
> use a string (struct.unpack, writing to a file, etc.).

Even regular expressions

>>> import array, re
>>> t = "When in the course of human events"
>>> s = array.array("c", t)
>>> pat = re.compile(r"([aeiou]{2,})")
>>> m = pat.search(s)
>>> m.group(1)
array('c', 'ou')
>>>

                    Andrew
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