"Neil Cerutti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2007-05-22, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Aside from the hashing issue, there is nothing that a tuple can do > >> that can't be done as well or better by a list. > > > > There are a few other cases where you have to use a tuple, for > > example in a try..except statement the exception specification > > must be an exception to be caught or a tuple of exception > > specifications: a list won't work to catch multiple exceptions. > > I use tuples simply because of their mellifluous appellation. > I did not realise that you kept a bee... :-) - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
