Lists vs tuples (newbie)

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-05-22, Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> "Hendrik van Rooyen" <mail at microcorp.co.za> wrote:
>
>> Aside from the hashing issue, there is nothing that a tuple can do
>> that can't be done as well or better by a list.
>
> There are a few other cases where you have to use a tuple, for
> example in a try..except statement the exception specification
> must be an exception to be caught or a tuple of exception
> specifications: a list won't work to catch multiple exceptions.

I use tuples simply because of their mellifluous appellation.

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Neil Cerutti