[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > > On Mar 17, 1:31 pm, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > wrote: >> >> > >> A common explanation for this is that lists are for homogenous >> > >> collections, tuples are for when you have heterogenous >> > >> collections i.e. related but different things. >> >> > > I interpret this as meaning that in a data table, I should have a >> > > list of records but each record should be a tuple of fields, >> > > since the fields for a table usually have different forms whereas >> > > the records usually all have the same record layout. >> >> >>> b in b >> False > > That's actually interesting.
Just for the avoidance of doubt, I didn't write the 'b in b' line: castironpi is replying to himself without attribution. P.S. I still don't see the relevance of any of castironpi's followup to my post, but since none it made any sense to me I guess it doesn't matter. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
