tuple question

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3947255E.7CF77923 at softhome.net>,
etoffi  <etoffi at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
>admittedly this is a very [insert descriptive word here] question
>to ask, but what is a tuple and why is it used (as opposed to an
>array, etc). 

>From my POV, the primary purpose of tuples is for dictionaries: they
allow you to do things like

foo = {}
foo[(1,2)] = 3

This essentially permits the use of multi-column primary keys (to use
database terminology).  In addition, as Stephen Hansen pointed out,
tuples are a fair bit more efficient than lists.
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