Mike Meyer wrote: > It seems that the distinction between tuples and lists has slowly been > fading away. What we call "tuple unpacking" works fine with lists on > either side of the assignment, and iterators on the values side. IIRC, > "apply" used to require that the second argument be a tuple; it now > accepts sequences, and has been depreciated in favor of *args, which > accepts not only sequences but iterators. > > Is there any place in the language that still requires tuples instead > of sequences, except for use as dictionary keys?
The % operator for strings. And in argument lists. def __setitem__(self, (row, column), value): ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
