Lists vs tuples (newbie)
Duncan Booth
duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Tue May 22 15:15:04 EDT 2007
"Hendrik van Rooyen" <mail at microcorp.co.za> wrote:
> Aside from the hashing issue, there is nothing that a tuple can do
> that can't be done as well or better by a list.
There are a few other cases where you have to use a tuple, for example in a
try..except statement the exception specification must be an exception to
be caught or a tuple of exception specifications: a list won't work to
catch multiple exceptions.
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