function that modifies a string

[Fredrik Lundh]

tac-tics wrote:

> I didn't say that. I meant that arrays in the C++ sense are dangerous.

so what do you think Python's string type uses on the inside ?

> C++ offers pass by value options. That makes it so you never need to
> worry about messing up data that doesn't belong to you unless you
> explicitly pass by reference. Python doesn't do this for you. Thus, a
> mutable string class in Python requires a great deal more care since
> you need to make copies of every string in every function in order to
> prevent changes in one object's string from affecting another.

and that would be different from any other mutable Python type in 
exactly what way ?

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