list vs tuple

Rikard Bosnjakovic bos at hack.org
Wed Mar 28 08:48:03 EST 2001


deadmeat wrote:

> A tuple seems to be a very basic list, so unless it's faster, what's the
> point of it?

Tuples are immutable, lists are not. With tuples you get some sort of
integrity, since you can't change a tuple "by mistake" by some other
reference in your program. With lists, there is no such safety.


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