finding a value in a tuple

[Duncan Booth]

Chris Barker <chrishbarker at home.net> wrote in 
news:3C06AF9D.E6DEB295 at home.net:

> Actually, no. It is a "list". It would be a tuple if you had built it
> like this:
> 
> mylist = ('one','two','three')
> 
> Parentheses rather than square brackets. The difference is that lists
> are mutable (can be changed in place) and tuples care not.

Or even if you had built it thus:
   mylist = 'one', 'two', 'three'

The parentheses are not part of the tuple syntax (except for empty tuples): 
they are only required when the expression would otherwise be ambiguous.


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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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