Lists vs tuples (newbie)

[Duncan Booth]

"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.