Tuples¶

A tuple is a sequence of elements that cannot be modified. They are useful to group elements of different type.

person = ('Emily', 'Smith', 23)

In contrast to lists, tuples can also be used as keys in dictionaries.

Indexing tuples¶

Elements of tuples can be indexed in the same way as lists:

person[0]
person[-2]
person[1:]

You can run a for loop over a tuple:

for elem in person:
    print(elem)

Enumerating multiple values separated by a comma implictly creates tuples:

person = 'Emily', 'Smith', 23

Tuples can be unpacked to multiple variables:

first, last, age = person

It is even possible to swap the value of variables that way:

first, last = last, first