[Tutor] complete newbie tuple question

[Colin Day]

Hello all, I just starting trying to learn to Program and I was reading
Alan's very helpful website when I came across the section on indexing and
tuples:

aTuple = (1,3,5)
>>> print aTuple[1]    # use indexing like a list
3

now this confuses me (like a lot of things so far :) ) because the way it
seems to me is that

    print aTuple[1] would refer to the first charachter in the tuple, in
this case "1", but it doesn't.

could someone help clear this up for me?

thanks

Colin