On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:25 PM, TP <tribulati...@paralleles.invalid> wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > >> Back to your example: your solution is perfectly fine, although a bit >> costly and more error-prone if you happen to forget to create a copy. >> A safer alternative for these cases is using tuples, because they are >> immutable. > > Thanks Diez for your explanation. > The problem with tuples is that it is not easy to modify them: in my case, I > need to append a string to the tuple at each recursive step. > So, it seems to me that I need to write a loop to modify the tuple, because > on a simple example: > >>>> a=("foo", "bar") >>>> b=(a[0],a[1],"toto") >>>> b > (u'foo', u'bar', u'toto') > > I do not find any other means to obtain that result for b. With lists, I can > use ".extend()". > Am I right?
Nope, sorry: >>> a = ("foo", "bar") >>> s = "toto" >>> b = a + (s,) >>> b ('foo', 'bar', 'toto') Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list