Death to tuples!

[Steven Bethard]

Dan Bishop wrote:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
>>Is there any place in the language that still requires tuples instead
>>of sequences, except for use as dictionary keys?
> 
> The % operator for strings.  And in argument lists.
> 
> def __setitem__(self, (row, column), value):
>    ...

Interesting that both of these two things[1][2] have recently been 
suggested as candidates for removal in Python 3.0.

[1]http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2005-09-01_2005-09-15.html#string-formatting-in-python-3-0
[2]http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2005-09-16_2005-09-30.html#removing-nested-function-parameters

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