Tuples

[François Pinard]

scarblac-spamtrap at pino.selwerd.nl (Remco Gerlich) writes:

> Fredrik Lundh wrote in comp.lang.python:
> > T = 1, 2, 3
> > L = list(T)
> > ... modify list in place
> > T = tuple(L)
> > 
> > (note: this is more efficient than it may seem -- the
> > list() and tuple() functions copy references, not the
> > objects themselves).

> Thanks! Never heard of those. Useful.

Yet, if T and L both exist, and L is modified, a copy *ought* to be done
somewhere, the copy might not just be done "in place"...

Maybe, then, that these functions are not as efficient as they seem? :-)

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