Python String Immutability Broken!

[Ken Seehart]

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
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> Actually, I am not complaining - I am asking for advice on the side
> effects of what I am doing, which is replacing a bunch of bits
> in what is essentially an output bit field with the corresponding
> input bits at the same addresses read back from a simulated i/o
> bus structure.  And I would also like to know if there is a better
> way of doing this.
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Yes, there is a better way.  Use a character array instead of a string.

http://python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/tutorial.html#arrays
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- Ken