how to prepend string to a string?

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Tue May 31 14:34:47 EDT 2005


flamesrock wrote:
> Thanks for all the responses :)
> 
> You're right, Kent. That does exactly what I need it to.
> 
> Anyways.. if there isn't a prepend function, I'm going to request it
> from the devs. Would be cool to see that in future versions of python.

Since strings cannot be modified in-place (they are "immutable"), the 
concept of prepend for a string is meaningless (and so is append). 
Instead, you simply build a new string from other bits, and it's 
entirely up to you which comes first and which comes second (thus 
providing implementations equivalent to prepend or append, as you need).

-Peter



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