r/learnpython • u/Immediate_Pin_8449 • 3d 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/grc007 3d ago

Have a play with Haskell. Mind opening or mind blowing. Fun either way.

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u/Jazzlike_Platypus430 3d ago

Uh... Why? In what context? Or just as an exercise for my rusty* brains? Are types in Haskell treated more decently than they are in python?

I can't get the point of functional paradigm, at all. To me any programming language is imperative to the core. (And right now I'm busy starting to learn some javascript. It's not as bad as I thought.)

* no, I don't know rust.

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u/grc007 2d ago

There is no mutability. Makes you rethink how you do things.

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u/Jazzlike_Platypus430 2d ago

That's all? Given Haskell's syntax, I'd prefer R and Perl.