Tuples & lists

[Darrell]

From: "Darrell" <news at dorb.com>

Did an experiment on NT and lists and tuples took the same amount of space.
Humm ? Not what I expected.

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--Darrell
Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote in message
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> In article <377bbde1 at news.xtml.co.uk>, nick at NOSPAMvideosystem.co.uk
says...
>
> >Why both having tuples and lists? As far as I can see there're the same,
but
> >tuples are read only..? Have I missed something in the tutorial?
>
> There is probably something in the the FAQ.  BAsically, tuples are stored
> more compactly and can be used as dictionary keys (because they ARE
> readonly).
>
> TJR
>