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Python Tuples

A tuple in Python is an immutable sequence of objects, created using parentheses and comma-separated values. Tuples can be accessed using indices, sliced, concatenated, and support various operations similar to strings. Key functions include comparing tuples, finding their length, and converting lists to tuples.

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Python Tuples

A tuple in Python is an immutable sequence of objects, created using parentheses and comma-separated values. Tuples can be accessed using indices, sliced, concatenated, and support various operations similar to strings. Key functions include comparing tuples, finding their length, and converting lists to tuples.

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PYTHON TUPLES

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A tuple is a sequence of immutable Python objects. T uples are sequences, just like lists. T he only difference is
that tuples can't be chang ed i.e., 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:

tup1 = ('physics', 'chemistry', 1997, 2000);


tup2 = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 );
tup3 = "a", "b", "c", "d";

T he empty tuple is written as two parentheses containing nothing :

tup1 = ();

T o write a tuple containing a sing le value you have to include a comma, even thoug h there is only one value:

tup1 = (50,);

Like string indices, tuple indices start at 0, and tuples can be sliced, concatenated and so on.

Accessing Values in Tuples:


T o access values in tuple, use the square brackets for slicing along with the index or indices to obtain value
available at that index. Following is a simple example:

#!/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]

When the above code is executed, it produces the following result:

tup1[0]: physics
tup2[1:5]: [2, 3, 4, 5]

Updating Tuples:
T uples are immutable which means you cannot update them or chang e values of tuple elements. But we able to
take portions of an existing tuples to create a new tuples as follows. Following is a simple example:

#!/usr/bin/python

tup1 = (12, 34.56);


tup2 = ('abc', 'xyz');

# Following action is not valid for tuples


# tup1[0] = 100;

# So let's create a new tuple as follows


tup3 = tup1 + tup2;
print tup3;

When the above code is executed, it produces the following result:

(12, 34.56, 'abc', 'xyz')


Delete Tuple Elements:
Removing individual tuple elements is not possible. T here is, of course, nothing wrong with putting tog ether
another tuple with the undesired elements discarded.

T o explicitly remove an entire tuple, just use the del statement. Following is a simple example:

#!/usr/bin/python

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

print tup;
del tup;
print "After deleting tup : "
print tup;

T his will produce following result. Note an exception raised, this is because after del tup tuple does not exist
any more:

('physics', 'chemistry', 1997, 2000)


After deleting tup :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 9, in <module>
print tup;
NameError: name 'tup' is not defined

Basic Tuples Operations:


T uples respond to the + and * operators much like string s; they mean concatenation and repetition here too,
except that the result is a new tuple, not a string .

In fact, tuples respond to all of the g eneral sequence operations we used on string s in the prior chapter :

Python Expression Results Desc ription

len((1, 2, 3)) 3 Leng th

(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) T rue Membership

for x in (1, 2, 3): print x, 123 Iteration

Indexing , Slicing , and Matrixes:


Because tuples are sequences, indexing and slicing work the same way for tuples as they do for string s.
Assuming following input:

L = ('spam', 'Spam', 'SPAM!')

Python Expression Results Desc ription

L[2] 'SPAM!' Offsets start at zero

L[-2] 'Spam' Neg ative: count from the rig ht


L[1:] ['Spam', 'SPAM!'] Slicing fetches sections

No Enclosing Delimiters:
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:

#!/usr/bin/python

print 'abc', -4.24e93, 18+6.6j, 'xyz';


x, y = 1, 2;
print "Value of x , y : ", x,y;

When the above code is executed, it produces the following result:

abc -4.24e+93 (18+6.6j) xyz


Value of x , y : 1 2

Built-in Tuple Functions:


Python includes the following tuple functions:

SN Func tion with Desc ription

1 cmp(tuple1, tuple2)
Compares elements of both tuples.

2 len(tuple)
Gives the total leng th of the tuple.

3 max(tuple)
Returns item from the tuple with max value.

4 min(tuple)
Returns item from the tuple with min value.

5 tuple(seq)
Converts a list into tuple.

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