A widely used antonym for hypochondriac is "stoic." Spelt without a leading capital, it doesn't refer to the Stoic school of philosophy but to the general idea of ignoring or minimizing setbacks and unfavorable information.

Word for the opposite of "hypochondriasis"
In python, are strings mutable?  The line someString[3] = "a" throws the error 


  TypeError: 'str' object does not
  support item assignment


I can see why (as I could have written someString[3] = "test" and that would obviously be illegal) but is there a method to do this in python?
