Death to tuples!

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Tue Nov 29 12:12:41 EST 2005


    >> Actually, no, I hadn't.  I don't use tuples that way.  It's rare when
    >> I have a tuple whose elements are not all floats, strings or ints,
    >> and I never put mutable containers in them.

    Alex> You never have a dict whose values are lists?  

Sorry, incomplete explanation.  I never create tuples which contain mutable
containers, so I never have the "can't use 'em as dict keys" and related
problems.  My approach to use of tuples pretty much matches Guido's intent I
think: small, immutable, record-like things.

immutable-all-the-way-down-ly, y'rs,

Skip



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