[Python-Dev] Slice as a copy... by design? (original) (raw)
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Thu May 22 19:01:44 CEST 2008
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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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