performance of tuple-less Python?

[François Pinard]

"Greg Wilson" <gvwilson at nevex.com> writes:

> [...] the use of tuples (which I believe are conceptually redundant) [...]

Tuples may be used to index within dictionaries, and I find this feature
very useful.  Lists may not.  I do not know the implementation details,
but would be tempted to have the prejudice (:-) that using lists to index
would imply some severe performance penalty.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard