On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is an 'intention' rather than an enforced rule isn't it? It does seem > natural though. I don't think i've ever seen a tuple with elements of > different types. > I use namedtuple for those, (or just plain classes before I knew of that.)
> My thumb rule is if you need an immutable structure (often for a dictionary > key), use a tuple. Otherwise, use a list. > Yeah, that pretty much sums up what I do too. I googled the links just before I posted, because while I thought that tuples were faster (I think I used them once for that reason), I couldn't remember why. -- Roshan Mathews http://teamtalk.im _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers