Tuple¶

Tuple is an immutable list. Any attempt to change/update tuple will return erro.

Benefits of tuple against List are:

• Faster than list
• Protects your data against accidental change
• Can be used as key in dictionaries, list can't

In [28]:

t = (1,2,3,'o','apple')
print (t)
type (t)

(1, 2, 3, 'o', 'apple')

Out[28]:

tuple

In [29]:

len(t)

Out[29]:

5

Accessing¶

In [30]:

print (t[1])
print (type(t[1]))

2
<class 'int'>

In [31]:

print (t[1:3])
type ([t[1:3]])

(2, 3)

Out[31]:

list