[Tutor] If tuple cannot be sorted, then why sorted() on a tuple is fine?

[Alan Gauld]

On 02/08/17 20:01, C W wrote:

> I am a little confused about why Tuple can be sorted.
> 
> Suppose I have the following,
> 
>> aTuple = (9, 3, 7, 5)
>> sorted(aTuple)
> [3, 5, 7, 9]

sorted() returns a new object.
The original tuple has not been changed
 - print aTuple to confirm this.

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