Erik Max Francis wrote: > Terry Hancock wrote: > >> I doubt that helps much: I pronounce all of those words >> (when I use them, which is not too often) as "-toopel". The >> only tuple I pronounce with the "-uh-" is "couple", and I >> usually call that a "two-tuple" when dealing with Python. > > > I prefer the name _pair_ :-). > >> I suspect that even those who would pronounce 'quintuple' >> "kwintuhpel" would say 'quintuplicate' as "kwinTOOPlikuht". >> (that's the noun, not the verb, which is "kwintoopliKATE"). > > > Yeah. The short form is that both are right and which one is more > common is probably regional more than anything. I've heard people say > _toople_ vs. _tuhple_, but I've never heard anyone say _quintoople_ vs. > _quintuhple_ (granted, not that the situation arises all that often). > > But come to think of it, it kind of does. I've heard _quintuhplet_ and > _sextuhplet_ and the like plenty of times, and I've never heard it > pronounced the other way (in General American). m-w.com shows something > interesting here -- the first listed pronunciation for _quintuple_ is oo > with uh being an alternate, but the first listed pronunciation for > _quintuplet_ is uh with oo being an alternate. Which probably goes to > emphasize that that it's just whatever you're used to and there's no > rhyme or reason to any of it. > >> So what's a 1-element tuple, anyway? A "mople"? "monople"? >> It does seem like this lopsided pythonic creature (1,) ought >> to have a name to reflect its ugly, newbie-unfriendly >> nature.
> Of course that's still a completely valid construct in Python so the > question stands. If a 4-tuple is a quadruple, a 3-tuple is a triple, a > 2-tuple is an pair, then I guess a 1-tuple would be a single. Granted > that's not nearly as gruesome enough a name to go with the special > lopsided Pythonic creature mentioned above. I suggest we name it a > hurgledink. > So, ahhh, what about zero-tuples? zuple? uple? Surely it would be better for 2,1, and 0-tuples to be called 2,1, and 0-tuples. And, BTW, in New Zealand, I've only ever heard the pronunciation 'tupple'. toople sounds kind-of stoopid. Cheers, Carl. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
