>> Actually, no, I hadn't. I don't use tuples that way. It's rare when >> I have a tuple whose elements are not all floats, strings or ints, >> and I never put mutable containers in them.
Alex> You never have a dict whose values are lists? Sorry, incomplete explanation. I never create tuples which contain mutable containers, so I never have the "can't use 'em as dict keys" and related problems. My approach to use of tuples pretty much matches Guido's intent I think: small, immutable, record-like things. immutable-all-the-way-down-ly, y'rs, Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list