list parameter of a recursive function

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Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

> Back to your example: your solution is perfectly fine, although a bit
> costly and more error-prone if you happen to forget to create a copy.
> A safer alternative for these cases is using tuples, because they are
> immutable.

Thanks Diez for your explanation.
The problem with tuples is that it is not easy to modify them: in my case, I 
need to append a string to the tuple at each recursive step.
So, it seems to me that I need to write a loop to modify the tuple, because 
on a simple example:

>>> a=("foo", "bar")
>>> b=(a[0],a[1],"toto")
>>> b
(u'foo', u'bar', u'toto')

I do not find any other means to obtain that result for b. With lists, I can 
use ".extend()".
Am I right?


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