adding elements to python tuples

[Erik Max Francis]

Uwe Mayer wrote:

> is it possible to append new elements to a tuple? I know tuples are
> immutable and that this would mean to create a new tuple with one more
> element, but how do you do it?

Just use the + operator:

>>> a = (1, 2, 3)
>>> a + (4,)
(1, 2, 3, 4)
>>> a
(1, 2, 3)
>>> a += (4, 5)
>>> a
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

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