Efficiency: list or tuple?

[Gonçalo Rodrigues]

On 15 Jan 2003 17:32:25 GMT, Spencer Ernest Doidge <spencer at efn.org>
wrote:

>I'm interested in putting pairs of integers and floats into a sequence 
>of indeterminate length.
>I'm collecting this data in real time, and I want to use the most efficient
>available method so as to be able to gather data as fast as possible and
>append it to the sequence as I go. 
>As far as I can tell, I have lists and tuples to choose from. 
>Does either of these structures work better in this situation, or is
>there some other way I don't know about?

Tuples are immutable, so you don't even have the append method
available. I suppose this does not leave much choice, heh?

Depending on what you want to do, you could also consider dictionaries
(or sets in 2.3).

With my best regards,
G. Rodrigues