Rick Johnson於 2013年2月13日星期三UTC+8上午1時48分07秒寫道: > On Monday, February 11, 2013 11:55:19 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:06 PM, 88888 Dihedral wrote: > > > > A permanently mutated list is a tuple of constant objects. > > > > > > I nominate this line as "bemusing head-scratcher of the week". > > > > Actually the statement is fact IF you can grok it through the eyes of clarity. > > > > "A permanently mutated list..." > > > > A list that has been mutated permanently, that is, it cannot be changed back > into a list. psst: i have a sneaking suspicion that he his referring to > tuples, let's see. > > > > "...is a tuple..." > > > > Ha! Well in Python the immutable sequence type /is/ a tuple after all. > > > > "...of constant objects..." > > > > The tuple contains objects, and it's objects will maintain a constant > ordering (relatively in tuple structure) until until the tuple's death. > >
>>> a1=[1,2,3] >>> tuple1=(a1,4,5,6) >>> tuple1 ([1, 2, 3], 4, 5, 6) >>> a1=[1,2] >>> tuple1 ([1, 2, 3], 4, 5, 6) >>> Yes, a tuple of constant objects is still not clear. > > Your confusion may stem from interpreting "constant" as the CS term > "CONSTANT"[1]; whereby the objects in the tuple are programming CONSTANTS, > that is, unable to change. But in reality, although a tuple (bka:StaticList) > cannot expand to add more objects, or shrink to eject existing objects, the > objects themselves CAN change their own internal state WITHOUT disrupting the > immutable harmony of the tuple. > > > > Observe: > > > > py> class Foo(object): > > pass > > py> foo = Foo() > > py> t = (1,'1', foo) > > py> t > > (1, '1', <__main__.Foo object at 0x0267BF50>) > > py> t[-1].bar = "abc" > > py> t > > (1, '1', <__main__.Foo object at 0x0267BF50>) > > > > Or by expanding a list > > > > py> t = (1,2,3) > > py> t = t+([],) > > py> t > > (1, 2, 3, []) > > py> t[-1].append('circus') > > py> t > > (1, 2, 3, ['circus']) > > > > [1] Which is an unfortunate side-effect of polysemy and compounded > exponentially by naive (and sometimes a purely malevolent intent when) > transformation of words into esoteric problem domains. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list