terminological obscurity

[Aahz]

In article <40aec6ff$0$17254$a1866201 at newsreader.visi.com>,
Grant Edwards  <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>
>I think the fact that Python lists can be heterogogenous is one of the
>most brilliantly useful things in the language, but apparently we're
>not supposed to use lists like that.  Since tuples aren't mutable, I'm
>completely at a loss as to how we're supposed to deal with mutable
>heterogenous sequences.  C always required tons of extra work to do
>stuff like that -- creating unions of structures with common header
>fields to tell you what type of union it was and so on.

It's a *guideline*, not an iron-clad restriction.  Python is a language
for consenting adults, after all.  Part of the point is that it rarely
makes sense to have an immutable homogenous collection.
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