Python: How efficient is subtring extraction?

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Published on 2010-03-16T19:16:59Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 19:31 UTC
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I've got the entire contents of a text file (at least a few KB) in string myStr.

Will the following code create a copy of the string (less the first character) in memory?

myStr = myStr[1:]

I'm hoping it just refers to a different location in the same internal buffer. If not, is there a more efficient way to do this?

Thanks!

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