On Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 1:15 PM Christopher Barker
> I agree -- this is very much a feature for third party packages -- or
> *maybe* some future stdlib class, but the builtins are fine as they are.
>
> In fact, I don't think there's a single use of a tuple of indexes (meaning
> something other than an arbitrary single object) in the stdlib is there? I
> know I've only used that in numpy.
>
I don't know whether it is in the stdlib, but I sometimes use tuples as
dict keys. E.g.
mydict[('mertz', 'david')] = 3.1415
Even though I could omit them, I'd almost surely use the parens for that.
And more likely it would be:
name = ('mertz', 'david')
mydict[name] = 3.1415
Conceptually, an "immutable collection" serves a different purpose than "a
collection of axes", even if they work then same under the hood.
>
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