Using a tuple instead of a list is like having an implied assert statement that this data is constant, and that special thought (and a specific function) is required to override that. Some tuples can be used as …

Mar 9, 2009 · In a list the values all have the same type and the length is not fixed. So the difference is very obvious. Finally there is the namedtuple in Python, which makes sense because a tuple is …

Apr 25, 2022 · 22 giving a tuple type with ellipsis means that number of elements in this tuple is not known, but type is known:

FWIW, list access is faster that tuple access in Python 2 but only because there is a special case for lists in BINARY_SUBSCR in Python/ceval.c. In Python 3, that optimization is gone, and tuples access …

Jul 28, 2010 · A useful variant of tuple is its sub-type collections.namedtuple (requires Python 2.6 or better) which lets you access items by name (with attribute syntax) as well as by index (the normal …

Jul 1, 2019 · When you want to collect an immutable ordered list of elements, use a tuple. (For example, when you want a (name, phone_number) pair that you wish to use as an element in a set, you would …

Oct 3, 2018 · 41 This question already has answers here: Using List/Tuple/etc. from typing vs directly referring type as list/tuple/etc (3 answers)

Mar 14, 2019 · Tuple they are immutable like strings and sequence like lists.They are used to store data just like list, just like string you cannot update or edit the tuple to change it you have to create a new …

Sep 12, 2016 · What's the difference of using List, Tuple, etc. from typing module: from typing import Tuple def f (points: Tuple): return map (do_stuff, points) As opposed to referring to Python's types dire...

May 14, 2010 · In Python 2, set is always the slowest. or is the fastest for 2 to 3 literals, and tuple and list are faster with 4 or more literals. I couldn't distinguish the speed of tuple vs list.