[Python-ideas] Python Users Aren't Perfect

[Ethan Furman]

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."   
> Then we define a function foo(*args), and Python gives us a tuple!  :-(

Where is that in the docs?  Sounds like a patch is needed:

"lists are for sequences where items need to be added/removed; tuples 
are for sequences/aggregations where items will not be added/removed 
once the tuple is created"

~Ethan~

PS
As Antoine noted, a tuple for 'args' is appropriate, as once args is 
created at function call time, we won't be adding or removing from it.