terminological obscurity

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-05-24, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:

>>Tuples are for when you should have used a structure with
>>symbolically named fields.
>
> More precisely, when you have symbolic fields, but you want a
> light-weight and immutable structure to contain the info.

Well put.  

The immutable part is also important because that means they
can be used as keys in a dictionary -- even if they are
homogeneous.

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