[Patches] odd comment in tupleobject.h

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:07:20 -0400


> According to tupleobject.h:
> 
> /*
> Another generally useful object type is an tuple of object pointers.
> This is a mutable type: the tuple items can be changed (but not their
> number).  Out-of-range indices or non-tuple objects are ignored.
> */
> 
> Mutable?  Really?  
> 
> Or does this just mean that tuples are mutable from inside C code?

The latter.  It's a very old comment...

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