On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 12:39:30PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote: > On 6/05/20 2:22 am, jdve...@gmail.com wrote: > >However, if sets and frozensets are "are considered to be > >fundamentally the same kind of thing differentiated by mutability", > >as you said, why not tuples and lists? > > I think that can be answered by looking at the mathematical > heritage of the types involved: [...] > To a mathematician, however, tuples and sequences are very > different things. Python treating tuples as sequences is a > "practicality beats purity" kind of thing, not to be expected > from a mathematical point of view.
Thanks Greg, that's a really insightful observation. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/4HN4E233O66ZA3QWZFHX7QDJVHPRAXKG/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
