List vs tuples

[Andrei]

Mitja wrote on Thu, 8 Apr 2004 18:47:07 +0200:

> A neewbie's question here, probably discussed before:
> what's the purpose of having both lists AND tuples?
> At the first (and second and third, to be honest) glance lists are just
> tuples with extended functionality, so why have tuples around?

You can use tuples as keys in a dictionary, but you can't use lists for
that purpose (because they're mutable).

> I've been working with Python for a few months now but haven't yet come
> across a problem that would really require tuples.

That's possible. Lists offer many more facilities than tuples (mainly due
to them being mutable), so it's easier to just use a list (even if a tuple
could do the job).

-- 
Yours,

Andrei

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