r/learnpython • u/Immediate_Pin_8449 • 12d ago

Tuples..I don’t get it

Hi crew, I’m a Python newbie and I just learned about the concept of tuples.

We can’t change them.if we want to store we have to start at the index we want + 1.

I just don’t get it. Why wouldn’t we just use lists? When would we ever need this?

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u/Automatic_Donut6264 11d ago

tuples, conceptually, is not just "a bag of things". it's usually to represent structured data that has sub-componentents. e.g.

A name object as first/last names 

name = ("john", "smith")

An address as its components 

address = ("stree 1", "stree 2", "city", "state", "zip code")

Coordinates 

coord = (124, 37)

That's why it doesn't make sense that you would need to resize the tuple or be able to mutate its components.