tupples

=Tupples= A tuple is a sequence of immutable Python objects. Tuples are sequences, just like lists. The only difference is that tuples can't be changed ie. tuples are immutable and tuples use parentheses and lists use square brackets. Creating a tuple is as simple as putting different comma-separated values and optionally you can put these comma-separated values between parentheses also. For example: code tup1 = ('physics', 'chemistry', 1997, 2000); tup2 = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ); tup3 = "a", "b", "c", "d"; code || The empty tuple is written as two parentheses containing nothing: code tup1 = ; code || To write a tuple containing a single value you have to include a comma, even though there is only one value: code tup1 = (50,); code || Like string indices, tuple indices start at 0, and tuples can be sliced, concatenated and so on. = Accessing Values in Tuples: = To access values in tuple, use the square brackets for slicing along with the index or indices to obtain value available at that index:

Example:
code #!/usr/bin/python

tup1 = ('physics', 'chemistry', 1997, 2000); tup2 = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 );

print "tup1[0]: ", tup1[0] print "tup2[1:5]: ", tup2[1:5] code || This will produce following result: code tup1[0]: physics tup2[1:5]: [2, 3, 4, 5] code || = Updating Tuples: = Tuples are immutable which means you cannot update them or change values of tuple elements. But we able able to take portions of an existing tuples to create a new tuples as follows:

Example:
code #!/usr/bin/python

tup1 = (12, 34.56); tup2 = ('abc', 'xyz');


 * 1) Following action is not valid for tuples
 * 2) tup1 += tup2;

tup3 = tup1 + tup2; print tup3; code || This will produce following result: code (12, 34.56, 'abc', 'xyz') code || = Delete Tuple Elements: = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;">Removing individual tuple elements is not possible. There is, of course, nothing wrong with putting together another tuple with the undesired elements discarded. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;">To explicitly remove an entire tuple, just use the **del** statement:
 * 1) So let's create a new tuple as follows

Example:
code <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',monospace; font-size: 12px;">#!/usr/bin/python

tup = ('physics', 'chemistry', 1997, 2000);

print tup; del tup; print "After deleting tup : " print tup; code || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;">This will produce following result. Note an exception raised, this is because after **del tup** tuple does not exist any more: code <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',monospace; font-size: 12px;">('physics', 'chemistry', 1997, 2000) After deleting tup : Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 9, in    print tup; NameError: name 'tup' is not defined code || = Basic Tuples Operations: = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;">Tuples respond to the + and * operators much like strings; they mean concatenation and repetition here too, except that the result is a new tuple, not a string. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;">In fact, tuples respond to all of the general sequence operations we used on strings in the prior chapter : = Indexing, Slicing, and Matrixes: = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;">Because tuples are sequences, indexing and slicing work the same way for tuples as they do for strings. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;">Assuming following input: code <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',monospace; font-size: 12px;">L = ('spam', 'Spam', 'SPAM!') code ||
 * ~ Python Expression ||~ Results ||~ Description ||
 * len((1, 2, 3)) || 3 || Length ||
 * (1, 2, 3) + (4, 5, 6) || (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) || Concatenation ||
 * ['Hi!'] * 4 || ('Hi!', 'Hi!', 'Hi!', 'Hi!') || Repetition ||
 * 3 in (1, 2, 3) || True || Membership ||
 * for x in (1, 2, 3): print x, || 1 2 3 || Iteration ||

= No Enclosing Delimiters: = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;">Any set of multiple objects, comma-separated, written without identifying symbols, i.e., brackets for lists, parentheses for tuples, etc., default to tuples, as indicated in these short examples: code <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',monospace; font-size: 12px;">#!/usr/bin/python
 * ~ Python Expression ||~ Results ||~ Description ||
 * L[2] || 'SPAM!' || Offsets start at zero ||
 * L[-2] || 'Spam' || Negative: count from the right ||
 * L[1:] || ['Spam', 'SPAM!'] || Slicing fetches sections ||

print 'abc', -4.24e93, 18+6.6j, 'xyz'; x, y = 1, 2; print "Value of x, y : ", x,y; print var; code || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;">This will reduce following result: code <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',monospace; font-size: 12px;">abc -4.24e+93 (18+6.6j) xyz Value of x, y : 1 2 code || = Built-in Tuple Functions: = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;">Python includes following tuple functions Compares elements of both tuples. || Gives the total length of the tuple. || Returns item from the tuple with max value. || Returns item from the tuple with min value. || Converts a list into tuple. ||
 * ~ SN ||~ Function with Description ||
 * 1 || [|cmp(tuple1, tuple2)]
 * 2 || [|len(tuple)]
 * 3 || [|max(tuple)]
 * 4 || [|min(tuple)]
 * 5 || [|tuple(seq)]