Dan Bishop wrote: > Mike Meyer wrote: > >>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): > ...
Interesting that both of these two things[1][2] have recently been suggested as candidates for removal in Python 3.0. [1]http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2005-09-01_2005-09-15.html#string-formatting-in-python-3-0 [2]http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2005-09-16_2005-09-30.html#removing-nested-function-parameters STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
