[Python-ideas] Variable-length, homogeneous tuple: why?

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon Aug 18 08:53:04 CEST 2014


Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> So we need a name for a type that's a tuple used
> as a sequence.

Um. Isn't every tuple used as a sequence? So, the name “tuple” fits.

Maybe you mean “used as a *homogeneous* sequence”. Or maybe you mean
“used as a *variable-length* sequence”. Or something else?

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