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Mon Apr 23 12:06:13 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/100827.html

Thomas Weidner wrote:

> I started lerning Python and discovered tuples, but why do they exist
> ?
> What's the difference from a list ?

Because tuples are immutable, which means, for example, they can be used
as keys in a dictionary, whereas lists are mutable, which means they
cannot.

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Why tuples ???