[Tutor] string immutability

[Johan Martinez]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Steve Willoughby <steve at alchemy.com> wrote:

> On 24-Oct-11 12:17, Johan Martinez wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the replies everyone - Steve, Dave, Sander and Wayne. I
>> realized my wrong understanding/interpretation after posting the message
>> to the list, which usually  happens most of the time with me!
>>
>
> That happens to most of us all the time too :)  Unfortunately, with the lag
> between posting to the list and mail getting out to everyone, you'll
> probably get several replies that all say the same thing--we're not piling
> up on you, it's just a bunch of people being helpful without seeing that
> someone already answered yet.
>
> Glad we could help.  Looking more into how Python variables work unlocks a
> lot of potential for all sorts of data structure operations that other
> languages require pointers to do, but are a lot easier when essentially all
> "variables" are references to objects but with the details handled behind
> the scenes for you.
>
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Actually it's good to see so many replies and different methods and
explanations here.

Also, is there any doc link where I can find all the information about
String object - class and instance methods. Google pointed me to following
two links, but that wasn't helpful for finding instance method for finding
length of a string object (rather than using 'len' function).

- http://docs.python.org/library/string.html
- http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods

Finally I figured it out ( __length__() ) thanks to ipython shell env. But
is there any online documentation or interactive reference like ruby-ri?

jM.
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