On Wed, Oct 2, 2013, at 21:46, MRAB wrote: > > The difference is that a tuple can be reused, so it makes sense for the > > comiler to produce it as a const. (Much like the interning of small > > integers) The list, however, would always have to be copied from the > > compile-time object. So that object itself would be a phantom, used > > only as the template with which the list is to be made. > > > The key point here is that the tuple is immutable, including its items.
Hey, while we're on the subject, can we talk about frozen(set|dict) literals again? I really don't understand why this discussion fizzles out whenever it's brought up on python-ideas. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
