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Asking for Help: How to have a mutable buffer with python 2.3?
Use the MutableString class in the UserString module:
1>>> fromUserStringimportMutableString 2>>> s = MutableString('python') 3>>> s[2:4] = 'l' 4>>> prints 5pylon
