Question

I want to delete i.e. character number 5 in a string. So I did:

del line[5]

and got:
TypeError: ‘str’ object doesn’t support item deletion

So no I wonder whether there is a different efficient solution to the problem.

Answer 1

Strings are immutable in Python, so you can’t change them in-place.

But of course you can assign a combination of string slices back to the same identifier:

mystr = mystr[:5] + mystr[6:]