Modify a string's value

[Ben Finney]

s0suk3 at gmail.com writes:

> I just came across this unusual situation where I'd like to modify a
> string passed to a function

Again: Why? The normal way to do this is to create a new string and
return that.

> which seems impossible since Python passes arguments by value.

No, Python passes arguments by reference
<URL:http://effbot.org/zone/python-objects.htm>.

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Ben Finney