[Python-Dev] List vs Tuple / Homogeneous vs Heterogeneous / Mutable vs Immutable

[Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva]

This looks like an issue to be addressed at PEP-8 since it looks like a
styling issue.

I haven't seen any other recommendations there on how to use a certain data
structure, though.

Cheers, Leandro
Em 17/04/2014 16:24, "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> escreveu:

> It's definitely something that should be put in some documentation,
> probably at the point when people have learned enough to be designing their
> own programs where this issue comes up -- before they're wizards but well
> after they have learned the semantic differences between lists and tuples.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu Apr 17 2014 at 2:43:35 PM, Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva <
>> leandropls at cpti.cetuc.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello there!
>>>
>>> I've stumbled upon this discussion on python-dev about what the choice
>>> between using a list or a tuple is all about in 2003:
>>> 1. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-March/033962.html
>>> 2. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-March/034029.html
>>>
>>> There's a vague comment about it on python documentation but afaik there
>>> the discussion hasn't made into any PEPs. Is there an understanding about
>>> it?
>>>
>>
>> Think of tuples like a struct in C, lists like an array. That's just out
>> of Guido's head so I don't think we have ever bothered to write it down
>> somewhere as an important distinction of the initial design that should be
>> emphasized.
>>
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