Python String Immutability Broken!

[Simon Brunning]

2008/8/25 Hendrik van Rooyen <mail at microcorp.co.za>:
> It is reputed to belong to a programmer who was flayed alive
> by the C.L.P. group, because he had violated the immutability
> of a python string.

You can indeed use ctypes to modify the value of a string - see
<http://tinyurl.com/5hcnwl>. You can use it to crash the OS, too.

My advice - don't.

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