how do you pronounce 'tuple'?

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Tue Feb 14 04:31:29 EST 2006


Alan Kennedy wrote:

> [Terry Hancock]
>> So what's a 1-element tuple, anyway? A "mople"?  "monople"?
>> It does seem like this lopsided pythonic creature (1,) ought
>> to have a name to reflect its ugly, newbie-unfriendly
>> nature.
> 
> It's a "trip-you-uple", which you can pronounce anyway you like ;-)

All I hear there is "triple you up," which is good if you're in a poker 
tournament, which I suppose tells you where my mind has been lately.

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