Rémi Lapeyre <remi.lape...@henki.fr> added the comment: > A programmer want to instruct the computer to do something, without having to > care about how it works.
This is not true, as a programmer you need to choose carefully your data structures because they matter, for example there is a difference between doing a lookup on an indexed field in an SQL database and a field that is not indexed. As a programmer you care because it impacts the performance of your application. The linked discussion explains the difference between list and tuple in this instance. @rhettinger: while this is not hard to fix, there is no mention in the documentation about why this choice has been made. A beginner don't know about the internals of cPython, should we add a small note about the optimization done with tuple? ---------- nosy: +remi.lapeyre _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35897> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
