On 20 Jul, 18:27, Phillip B Oldham <phillip.old...@gmail.com> wrote: > We're not looking to start any arguments or religious wars and we're > not asking that python be changed into something its not. We'd simply > like to understand the decision behind the lists and tuple structures. > We feel that in not "getting" the difference between the two types we > may be missing out on using these data structures to their full > potential.
A crude simplification would be: - A Python programmer will use a tuple where a C programmer will use a struct. - Python and C programmers use lists and arrays similarly. Tuples are used for passing arguments to and from a function. Common use of tuples include multiple return values and optional arguments (*args). It has already been mentioned that tuples are immutable and can be used as dictionary keys. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
