On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:53:45 -0700, garrickp wrote: > Speaking of inessential but very useful things, I'm also a big fan of > the tuple swap... > a = 2 > b = 3 > (a, b) = (b, a)
Since tuples are made by commas, not brackets, that can be written more cleanly as: a, b = b, a The only exception is the special case of an empty tuple, which can be written as (). > IMO, the biggest thing going for tuples is the syntactical sugar they > bring to Python. More important than the ability to use them as keys in dicts? -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
