Ryan Krauss wrote: > I just tend to think in terms of lists rather than tuples. Why is a > tuple a more reasonable choice than a list? (I'm really asking and > not being argumentative, since you can't hear my tone.)
The key thing is that the type of the container of records is different from the type of the record, so you'd either have to have a list of tuples (or a list of lists of ... tuples) or a tuple of lists. There is a tendency to use lists for homogeneous collections and tuples for inhomogeneous collections; Guido says that this is the main difference in how he uses tuples and lists. When you get an answer to a DB-API2 SQL query, you get a list of (usually augmented) tuples. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
