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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-05-12 16:33:11 (GMT)
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This chapter describes some things you've learned about already in more detail,
and adds some new things as well.
-.. _tut-tuples:
-
-Tuples and Sequences
-====================
-
-We saw that lists and strings have many common properties, such as indexing and
-slicing operations. They are two examples of *sequence* data types (see
-:ref:`typesseq`). Since Python is an evolving language, other sequence data
-types may be added. There is also another standard sequence data type: the
-*tuple*.
-
-A tuple consists of a number of values separated by commas, for instance::
-
- >>> t = 12345, 54321, 'hello!'
- >>> t[0]
- 12345
- >>> t
- (12345, 54321, 'hello!')
- >>> # Tuples may be nested:
- ... u = t, (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
- >>> u
- ((12345, 54321, 'hello!'), (1, 2, 3, 4, 5))
-
-As you see, on output tuples are always enclosed in parentheses, so that nested
-tuples are interpreted correctly; they may be input with or without surrounding
-parentheses, although often parentheses are necessary anyway (if the tuple is
-part of a larger expression).
-
-Tuples have many uses. For example: (x, y) coordinate pairs, employee records
-from a database, etc. Tuples, like strings, are immutable: it is not possible
-to assign to the individual items of a tuple (you can simulate much of the same
-effect with slicing and concatenation, though). It is also possible to create
-tuples which contain mutable objects, such as lists.
-
-A special problem is the construction of tuples containing 0 or 1 items: the
-syntax has some extra quirks to accommodate these. Empty tuples are constructed
-by an empty pair of parentheses; a tuple with one item is constructed by
-following a value with a comma (it is not sufficient to enclose a single value
-in parentheses). Ugly, but effective. For example::
-
- >>> empty = ()
- >>> singleton = 'hello', # <-- note trailing comma
- >>> len(empty)
- 0
- >>> len(singleton)
- 1
- >>> singleton
- ('hello',)
-
-The statement ``t = 12345, 54321, 'hello!'`` is an example of *tuple packing*:
-the values ``12345``, ``54321`` and ``'hello!'`` are packed together in a tuple.
-The reverse operation is also possible::
-
- >>> x, y, z = t
-
-This is called, appropriately enough, *sequence unpacking*. Sequence unpacking
-requires the list of variables on the left to have the same number of elements
-as the length of the sequence. Note that multiple assignment is really just a
-combination of tuple packing and sequence unpacking!
-
-There is a small bit of asymmetry here: packing multiple values always creates
-a tuple, and unpacking works for any sequence.
-
-.. % XXX Add a bit on the difference between tuples and lists.
-
-
.. _tut-morelists:
More on Lists