Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

"James Stroud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > > > > But if you limit it to one thing and its inverse, its quite useful, and it > > would be nice to have one "doubledict" that can be accessed as speedily > > from either end... > > > > Sort of an internally linked list of

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sure looks like t changed, and therefore t is NOT immutable--and > the whole "tuples are immutable" mantra is a lie. However, the list """ So, "the statue that points to Hotel Belfiore" h

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > > "7stud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>.. But using a tuple as a >>key in a dictionary is probably something you will never do. > > > Yikes! I do this all the time... > > Think of an address in any one town. > It has a Street, and a number > (could

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

"7stud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .. But using a tuple as a > key in a dictionary is probably something you will never do. Yikes! I do this all the time... Think of an address in any one town. It has a Street, and a number (could be more complex, like a sub number for an apartme

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

"7stud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Yes. Tuples are immutable - once created, they can't change. > > Just to explain that statement a little better. If you do this: > > > t = (1, 2, ["red", "white"]) > t[2].append("purple") > print t#(1, 2, ['red', 'white',

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:01:51 -0700, bearophileHUGS wrote: >> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, [7, 9, 8, 10]] > > Such sorting may be impossible in Python 3.0 (comparing the order of > lists with integers may be seen as meaningless. Otherwise you can see > single numbers as lists of len=1, like another language

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

On Apr 12, 5:38 pm, "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to start grouping all my questions in one post as this is my > second today, and sorta makes me feel dumb to keep having to bother you all > with trivial questions. You might also investigate the python tutorial mailing list, which

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

Scott wrote: > Now I read somewhere that you could change the list inside that tupple. But > I can't find any documentation that describes HOW to do it. The only things > I CAN find on the subject say, "Don't do it because its more trouble than > it's worth." But that doesn't matter to me, be

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

On Apr 12, 5:38 pm, "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to start grouping all my questions in one post as this is my > second today, and sorta makes me feel dumb to keep having to bother you all > with trivial questions. I'll just seperate my questions with: > ---

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

> Yes. Tuples are immutable - once created, they can't change. Just to explain that statement a little better. If you do this: t = (1, 2, ["red", "white"]) t[2].append("purple") print t#(1, 2, ['red', 'white', 'purple']) It sure looks like t changed, and therefore t is NOT immutable--and

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

En Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:38:55 -0300, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > List's and Tuple's > I don't see the distinction between the two. I mean, I understand that a > list is mutable and a tuple is immutable. > The thing that I dont understand about them is what, besides that, > seperates

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

"Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm going to start grouping all my questions in one post as this is > my second today, and sorta makes me feel dumb to keep having to > bother you all with trivial questions. No, please don't do that. Separate questions leading to separate discussions should

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

> Now I read somewhere that you could change the > list inside that tupple. But I can't find any > documentation that describes HOW to do it. t = (1, 2, ["red", "white"]) t[2][1] = "purple" print t t[2] returns the list, so the second line is equivalent to: lst = t[2] lst[1] = "purple" That is

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

> And the last example brings up another question. What's the deal with a > tupple that has a list in it such as: > > >>>my_tupple = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, [6, 7, 8, 9]) > > Now I read somewhere that you could change the list inside that tupple. But > I can't find any documentation that describes HOW to

Re: Lists and Tuples and Much More

Scott: Others will give you many more answers, here is just a bit. > And how would you sort the list that's in the list? I guess that goes in > conjunction with the section above, but still: >>> my_list = [6, 4, 3, 5, 2, 1] > >>> my_list.append([7, 9, 8, 10]) > >>> my_list.sort() > >>> my_list >