Using a tuple instead of a list is like having an implied assert statement that this data is constant, and that special thought (and a specific function) is required to override that. Some tuples can …

Mar 9, 2009 · In a list the values all have the same type and the length is not fixed. So the difference is very obvious. Finally there is the namedtuple in Python, which makes sense …

Retrieving elements from a tuple are very slightly faster than from a list. Because, in CPython, tuples have direct access (pointers) to their elements, while lists need to first access another …

Jul 28, 2010 · A useful variant of tuple is its sub-type collections.namedtuple (requires Python 2.6 or better) which lets you access items by name (with attribute syntax) as well as by index (the …

Apr 25, 2022 · 22 giving a tuple type with ellipsis means that number of elements in this tuple is not known, but type is known:

Oct 3, 2018 · 41 This question already has answers here: Using List/Tuple/etc. from typing vs directly referring type as list/tuple/etc (3 answers)

In Python 2, set is always the slowest. or is the fastest for 2 to 3 literals, and tuple and list are faster with 4 or more literals. I couldn't distinguish the speed of tuple vs list.

Sep 12, 2016 · 348 Until Python 3.9 added support for type hinting using standard collections, you had to use typing.Tuple and typing.List if you wanted to document what type the contents of …

Mar 14, 2019 · Tuple they are immutable like strings and sequence like lists.They are used to store data just like list, just like string you cannot update or edit the tuple to change it you have …

For type annotations, in Python 3.8 versions and earlier, it was explicitly required to import List as a valid type. So, we had to do something like from typing import List. Why did we have to crea...