[Python-Dev] Slice as a copy... by design? (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu May 22 19:01:44 CEST 2008


On Thu, May 22, 2008, Facundo Batista wrote:

A thread in PyAr raised the question that, considering that strings are immutable, why a slice of a string is a copy and not a reference to a part of that string.

Someone did a patch for this at one point, but I don't remember what happened.

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