regex into str

[Peter Kleiweg]

Jeremy Bowers schreef:

> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 04:08:57 +0200, Peter Kleiweg wrote:
> > This works:
> >
> >     a += 'x'
>
> In the sense you mean, no it doesn't.

I mean in the sense it does, and in that sense it does.

>
> Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jun  8 2004, 17:41:43)
> [GCC 3.3.3 20040217 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.3, propolice-3.3-7)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> a = 'a'
> >>> a
> 'a'
> >>> id(a)
> 1074037376
> >>> a += 'b'
> >>> a
> 'ab'
> >>> id(a)
> 1074272448
>
> Note the two different id numbers. 'a' and 'ab' are not the same string.

That is not relevant. What matters is that a += 'b' does what it
is supposed to do.


> > Is there a way to tell Python that '' should be something else
> > than str?
>
> No.

Bummer.


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