Why are strings immutable?

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 11:34:54 -0400, rumours say that "John Roth"
<newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> might have written:

[<snip> strings are immutable because...]

>That said, it would be useful to have a
>string buffer object that could be changed.

array.array('c') is a close substitute.
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