Lists and Tuples
Michael Hudson
mwh at python.net
Fri Dec 5 07:46:48 EST 2003
Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> writes:
> Jeff Wagner fed this fish to the penguins on Thursday 04 December 2003
> 21:19 pm:
>
> > tuple. So, what's the difference and why choose one over the other?
> >
> A tuple can be the key for a dictionary, a list can't.
>
>
> Not sure of a tuple containing a list, though...
Nope. A tuple is hashable iff all of its elements are.
Cheers,
mwh
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