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only thing about Lua is that strings are immutable so certain kinds of operations can be very slow.

• hetman 14y ago
  They are also immutable in Python.
  • ShawnBird 14y ago
    What are you talking about? http://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html http://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html
    • pyre 14y ago
      >>> a = "string" >>> a[1] = 'g' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment >>> b = a.replace('t', 'g') >>> b 'sgring' >>> a 'string' >>> id(b) 3065252256L >>> id(a) 3075481632L Also from here[1]: Strings and tuples are immutable sequence types: such objects cannot be modified once created. [1] http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#mutable-sequence-types http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#mutable-seque...
      • ShawnBird 14y ago
        Oh. I guess I never thought of strings as immutable because there are so many ways to change them.
        • noselasd 14y ago
          Given that they're immutable, you cannot change them. Instead all the operations returns a new, modified, string.
    • deleted 14y ago
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