assignment statements: lists vs. strings

[Aahz]

In article <3e96ebd7.0402020750.3b0b9b82 at posting.google.com>,
Klaus Neuner <klaus_neuner82 at yahoo.de> wrote:
>
>I would like to understand the reason for the following difference
>between dealing with lists and dealing with strings: What is this
>difference good for? How it is accounted for in Python slang?

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