Maybe there would be less dispute if this dogma/convention(?) "Tuples are for heterogeneous data, list are for homogeneous data" would be written down somewhere in the tutorial, reference or in PEP8, so people would be aware of it.
And can somebody explain what is exactly meant with "homogenous data"? That the type of the elements is the same in some technical or philosophical meaning? Concretely speaking, which data type should I use for coordinate tuples? Usually, tuples are used. Does this mean that I should better use lists from now on because all the components have the same type? -- Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
