Martin Kulas wrote: > From programming languages like C I expect something like that: > >>>> idx = 1 >>>> s1 = "pxthon" >>>> s1[idx] = 'y' > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > TypeError: object does not support item assignment > > It does not work :-(
Yes, Python strings are immutable. > Is this a typical approach in Python to replace one character > in a string? Are there better (faster) ways to achieve my goal? Is speed *really* your primary goal? :) You could also convert the string to a list, do the changes, and convert back. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #259: Someone's tie is caught in the printer, and if anything else gets printed, he'll be in it too. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
