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

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On 03/06/2014 07:28, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 10:36:37 AM UTC+5:30, Deb Wyatt wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It is with some pleasure that I see this question: Most people who are
> clueless have no clue that they are clueless -- also called the
> Dunning-Krüger effect.
>
> Be assured that this question is much harder and problematic than people believe.
>
> There are earlier discussions on this on this list, eg
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.python/023NLi4XXR4[126-150-false]
>
> [Sorry the archive thread is too broken to quote meaningfully]
>

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Re: can someone explain the concept of "strings (or whatever) being immutable" Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-06-03 15:23 +1000
  Re: can someone explain the concept of "strings (or whatever) being immutable" Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-06-02 23:28 -0700
    Re: can someone explain the concept of "strings (or whatever) being immutable" Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-03 08:59 +0100

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