Is An Element of a Sequence an Object?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 03 Jun 2017 21:06:19 -0700, Jon Forrest wrote:

> I wasn't thinking so much about the objects produced by an operation on
> a sequence as I was about when the sequence is created. A trivial
> sequence is
> 
> "abc"
> 
> As I understand it, this is one object, not three. The original excerpt
> implies the later.

Actually it implies *four* objects, not three. A better example would be 
a tuple:


("a", "b", "c")

which consists of the three items (each a single character string) plus 
the tuple object itself, the container holding them.




-- 
Steve