General question about Python design goals

[Paul Rubin]

Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> writes:
> Right.  After devoting a lengthy post to the defense of
> tuples as a structured type, I have to admit that they're
> not a very good one ... 
> Another theme that occasionally comes up in advice from the
> learned has been "use a class". 

There's a historical issue too: when tuples started first being
used this way in Python, classes had not yet been introduced.