Python String Immutability Broken!

Patrick Maupin pmaupin at gmail.com
Sun Aug 24 22:41:50 EDT 2008


On Aug 24, 8:49 pm, "Hendrik van Rooyen" <m... at microcorp.co.za> wrote:
> (a lot of stuff related to using a string with a C library via ctypes)

Very entertaining.

But let me get this straight:   Are you just complaining that if you
pass a string to an arbitrary C function using ctypes, that that
arbitrary function can modify the string?

Because if you are, then I think you share a great deal of
responsibility for the death of that string -- sending the poor thing
to its grave through some unknown C function.

What would you have ctypes do instead?



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