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In Python, a string (object of str class) is of immutable type. An immutable object is the one which can be modified in place, one created in the memory. Hence, unlike a list, any character in the sequence cannot be overwritten, nor can we insert or append characters to it unless we use certain string method that returns a new string object.

However, we can use one of the following tricks as a workaround to modify a string.

Converting a String to a List

Since both string and list objects are sequences, they are interconvertible. Hence, if we cast a string object to a list, modify the list either by insert(), append() or remove() methods and convert the list back to a string, to get back the modified version.

We have a string variable s1 with WORD as its value. With list() built-in function, let us convert it to a l1 list object, and insert a character L at index 3. The we use the join() method in str class to concatenate all the characters.

 
s1="WORD" print ("original string:", s1) l1=list(s1) l1.insert(3,"L") print (l1) s1=''.join(l1) print ("Modified string:", s1)

It will produce the following output −

original string: WORD
['W', 'O', 'R', 'L', 'D']
Modified string: WORLD

Using the Array Module

To modify a string, construct an array object. Python standard library includes array module. We can have an array of Unicode type from a string variable.

import array as ar s1="WORD" sar=ar.array('u', s1)

Items in the array have a zero based index. So, we can perform array operations such as append, insert, remove etc. Let us insert L before the character D

sar.insert(3,"L")

Now, with the help of tounicode() method, get back the modified string

 
import array as ar s1="WORD" print ("original string:", s1) sar=ar.array('u', s1) sar.insert(3,"L") s1=sar.tounicode() print ("Modified string:", s1)

It will produce the following output −

original string: WORD
Modified string: WORLD

Using the StringIO Class

Python's io module defines the classes to handle streams. The StringIO class represents a text stream using an in-memory text buffer. A StringIO object obtained from a string behaves like a File object. Hence we can perform read/write operations on it. The getvalue() method of StringIO class returns a string.

Let us use this principle in the following program to modify a string.

 
import io s1="WORD" print ("original string:", s1) sio=io.StringIO(s1) sio.seek(3) sio.write("LD") s1=sio.getvalue() print ("Modified string:", s1)

It will produce the following output −

original string: WORD
Modified string: WORLD





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