15 Dec
2011
15 Dec
'11
7:16 p.m.
On 12/15/2011 3:42 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
This is another place where Python is inconsistent. We're told, "lists are for homogenous sequences of varying length, like a C array; tuples are for heterogenous aggregations of known length, like a C struct."
I have not been told that for several years, and I am pretty sure you will not find any such thing in the current docs. I consider it pretty much obsolete, as the differences that flowed from that idea are gone. In Python 3, tuples have all the non-mutating sequence methods that list does. The situation was much different in 1.4. -- Terry Jan Reedy