Hi, I don't think you should see and difference in performance. Lists might take a bit more space since they usually preallocate memory for future inserts.
I'd go for lists where ever i need to use an array or a list, and tuples for storing records. Regards, Sidharth On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Vishal <vsapr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was presuming that since tuples are immutable, like strings, and string > immutability increases performance ( > http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-are-python-strings-immutable.htm) > so also, using tuple would improve performance over Lists. > > is this presumption correct? > > if it is, then as a practice, If I know the contents of my sequence at the > time of initialization and the fact that the sequence is not going to change > at runtime, would it be always good to use tuples instead of lists. > > Any views on this one? > > Thanks and best regards, > Vishal Sapre > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- I am but a man. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers