list vs tuple

[Mark Pilgrim]

"Aahz Maruch" <aahz at panix.com> wrote in message
news:99stcb$483$1 at panix6.panix.com...
> In article <hGlw6.782$p5.3210 at news1.rivrw1.nsw.optushome.com.au>,
> deadmeat <root@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
> >
> >Whats the practical difference between a list[] and a tuple() ?
>
> As someone said, tuples are immutable.  This leads to useful
> functionality, such as being able to easily use tuples as keys in
> dictionaries (ditto strings).

It was my understanding that only tuples containing immutable objects could
be used as dictionary keys.  For instance, (1,2,3) can be, and ("a","b","c")
can be, but ([1,2,3], ["a","b","c"]) can not, because the underlying objects
could mutate and cause problems.  (Wow, that sounds like a bad sci-fi
movie.)  Is this true?

-M
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