function that modifies a string

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Steven D'Aprano  <steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au> wrote:
>Of course, another right way would be to have mutable strings in Python.

What significant advantage would mutable strings have over StringIO
and wrapping list manipulation in list(s) and ''.join(l). Other than
that pleasing symmetry with sets/frozensets etc.

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