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[Python-Dev] Slice as a copy... by design?

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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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