Why tuples ???

[Konrad Hinsen]

"Thomas Weidner" <wolf359_ at gmx.net> writes:

> I started lerning Python and discovered tuples, but why do they exist ?
> What's the difference from a list ?

Tuples are immutable, their elements never change. This means, for
example, that you can use a tuple as an index to a dictionary, whereas
you cannot use a list there.
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