On 2007-05-22, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Aside from the hashing issue, there is nothing that a tuple can do >> that can't be done as well or better by a list. > > There are a few other cases where you have to use a tuple, for > example in a try..except statement the exception specification > must be an exception to be caught or a tuple of exception > specifications: a list won't work to catch multiple exceptions.
I use tuples simply because of their mellifluous appellation. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
