f---ing typechecking

[Ben Finney]

James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> writes:

> I increasingly come to the decision to avoid tuples altogether
> because, eventually, you end up turning them into lists anyway

I don't. I end up extracting them to separate variables.

    >>> foo = (12, None, "spam")
    >>> # ...
    >>> # much code, perhaps passing foo around as parameter
    >>> # ...
    >>> (bar, baz, wibble) = foo
    >>> # code using bar, baz, and/or wibble

If they are eventually extracted to lists, then it generally makes no
sense for them ever to begin as a tuple.

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