Re: can someone explain the concept of "strings (or whatever) being immutable"

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Subject	Re: can someone explain the concept of "strings (or whatever) being immutable"
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ben@benfinney.id.au
> Sent: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:54:01 +1000
> To: python-list@python.org
> Subject: Re: can someone explain the concept of "strings (or whatever)
> being immutable"
> 
> Deb Wyatt <codemonkey@inbox.com> writes:
> 
>> [no text]
> 
> Deb, can you expand a bit – and write the question in the body of your
> message? It's not clear what you want explained.
> 
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that's strange that you see no text.  The body of my email was as follows:

"""a_string = "This is a string"
a_string is pointing to the above string

now I change the value of a_string
a_string = "This string is different"
I understand that now a_string is pointing to a different string than it was before, in a different location.

my question is what happens to the original string??  Is it still in memory somewhere, nameless?
"""
That was just the first question.  What does immutable really mean if you can add items to a list? and concatenate strings?  I don't understand enough to even ask a comprehensible question, I guess.

Thanks in advance,
Deb in WA, USA

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Re: can someone explain the concept of "strings (or whatever) being immutable" Deb Wyatt <codemonkey@inbox.com> - 2014-06-02 21:06 -0800
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