Also, I thought that part of the python philosophy was to allow any
sort of object in a list, and to allow the same methods to work with
whatever was in list.
Not really. When the usual argument about the existence (and
justification) of lists & tuples comes along, one common distinction is
that
- tuples contain arbitrary object of varying types, so they are kind
of "records"
- lists should contain uniform objects.
None of this is enforced, but it's good customs to do so & to put it
frankly: if I came along a piece of code that created a list like the
one you presented, I'd say it's a code-smell.
Diez
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