[Tutor] string immutability

[Dipo Elegbede]

What you did here is just re-assigning s.
Try slicing s and then assign a new value to the slice.
s[2] would return 'r' now try to to set s[2] to another value to understand
immutability.
Hope it helps.

On 24 Oct 2011 19:06, "Johan Martinez" <jmartiee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am struggling to understand Python string immutability. I am able to
> modify Python string object after initializing/assigning it a value. So how
> does immutability work? I am not following it. Sorry for really stupid
> question. Any help?
>
> <code>
>
> >>> s = "First"
> >>> print s.__class__
> <type 'str'>
> >>> print s
> First
> >>> s = "Second"
> >>> print s
> Second
> >>>
>
> </code>
>
> jM.
>
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