GmCm > [Greg Wilson] > > > 4. "Aren't tuples redundant?" > To my mind, the "can act as dictionary key" argument is a red > herring. Tuples and lists may technically be almost the same > thing, but I find I hardly ever need to ponder whether I should > use a tuple or a list. Tuples are structures and lists are > containers. They're not structures the way a C programmer thinks of a struct or a pascal programmer thinks of a record. Do you have a better way of justifying their existence to novices who haven't reached the zen? It's a nontrivial pedagogical problem in my experience as well. (yes, this is a better topic for edu-sig than for python-dev). --david
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