Tuples

[Remco Gerlich]

I was making some functions for a chess program earlier. For a few
minutes, the idea was to represent the board by a 64-tuple.

But that's not very smart, is it?

Given 64-tuple x, is there an easy way to get the tuple with values
x[6] and x[21] swapped, for instance? Apart from

a1,b1,c1,d1,e1,f1,g1,h1,a2,b2,c2,d2,e2,f2,g2,h2, \
a3,b3,c3,d3,e3,f3,g3,h3,a4,b4,c4,d4,e4,f4,g4,h4, \
a5,b5,c5,d5,e5,f5,g5,h5,a6,b6,c6,d6,e6,f6,g6,h6, \
a7,b7,c7,d7,e7,f7,g7,h7,a8,b8,c8,d8,e8,f8,g8,h8 = x

x = (a1,b1,c1,d1,e1,f1,f3,h1,a2,b2,c2,d2,e2,f2,g2,h2,
     a3,b3,c3,d3,e3,g1,g3,h3,a4,b4,c4,d4,e4,f4,g4,h4,
	 a5,b5,c5,d5,e5,f5,g5,h5,a6,b6,c6,d6,e6,f6,g6,h6,
	 a7,b7,c7,d7,e7,f7,g7,h7,a8,b8,c8,d8,e8,f8,g8,h8)
	 
Or even

x = (x[0],x[1],x[2],x[3],x[4].....
etc

Tuples are immutable, but are there any nice builtin functions that
return new tuples, say with one element changed, or something like that?

My boards are lists now.
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Remco Gerlich,  scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
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