Lists and Tuples

Robert Brewer fumanchu at amor.org
Sun Dec 7 16:16:43 EST 2003


> > I might use a tuple containing a list.  Of course, in 
> > some situations, the "natural form" your data takes has
> > other external influences.  If I was storing addresses 
> > in a SQL table I might use a tuple of five strings (one
> > per column in the database) and just suffer with the fact 
> > that I couldn't have more than three street elements.
> > If addresses were stored in a pickle file, I'd might go
> > with a tuple containing a list and three strings.
> >
> > have-we-completely-snowed-the-OP-yet?-ly, y'rs,
> >
> > Skip
> 
> Yes but I'm enjoying it and learning a lot ;)
> 
> Jeff

Now if somebody can just figure out why:

    threading.Thread(args=())

but:

    threading.Timer(args=[])

we'll have this topic nailed down pretty well. ;)


FuManChu





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