Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries

[rusi]

On Jan 30, 7:55 am, "Daniel W. Rouse Jr."
<dwrous... at nethere.comNOSPAM> wrote:
> Or, can an anyone provide an example of
> more than a three-line example of a tuple or dictionary?

Have you seen this byt the creator of python -- GvR?
http://www.python.org/doc/essays/graphs.html

> I have recently started learning Python (2.7.3) but need a better
> explanation of how to use tuples and dictionaries.

This is an important question: To start off you need to digest whats
the diff between value oriented and object oriented. Since this is
more to do with paradigm than with a specific language you may read
for example:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Monad.Reader/Issue3/Functional_Programming_vs_Object_Oriented_Programming

In the python data structure world:
value | object
tuple | list
XX    | dictionary
frozen-set | set


>
> I am currently using "Learning Python" by Mark Lutz and David Ascher,
> published by O'Reilly (ISBN 1-56592-464-9)--but I find the explanations
> insufficient and the number of examples to be sparse. I do understand some
> ANSI C programming in addition to Python (and the book often wanders off
> into a comparison of C and Python in its numerous footnotes), but I need a
> better real-world example of how tuples and dictionaries are being used in
> actual Python code.
>
> Any recommendations of a better book that doesn't try to write such compact
> and clever code for a learning book?

> The purpose of my learning Python in this case is not for enterprise level
> or web-based application level testing at this point. I initially intend to
> use it for Software QA Test Automation purposes.
>
> Thanks in advance for any replies.