On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Alister <alister.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > I would think it would be better if the exception was thrown before the > assignment to the list took place > simply seeing that a modification action was being applied to a tupple > should be enough. > this would alert the programmer to the fact that he was trying something > that may have undesired consequences
Then the behavior of tuples would be inconsistent with other immutable types. This can't be applied generally, because the Python interpreter doesn't generally know whether a given type is supposed to be immutable or not. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
