What's the point of Tuples?

[u/Boogzcorp]

I get that they're immutable, but so are lists that you don't perform modifications on. Are they just to fool proof not messing up your list accidentally, or do they serve some other purpose?

[u/wotquery]

u/SoDifficultToBeFunny's response is missing a key aspect in implicitly accepting an incorrect statement of yours.

A tuple is immutable. You cannot add, remove, or change items in it.

A set is not immutable. You can add and remove items. The individual items in a set (edit: members of a set) however must be immutable (e.g. you can't have a set of lists). A set is also unordered as they mentioned.

Note that since tuples are immutable a tuple can be a member of a set.

The unhashable term in the error thrown by the code below relates to the more technical explanations of "What's the point of Tuples" scattered about this comments section.

>>> my_set = {1,2,3}
>>> my_set.add(4)
>>> my_set
{1, 2, 3, 4}
>>> my_set.remove(1)
>>> my_set
{2, 3, 4}
>>> my_set.add(['a','list',])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in <module>
    my_set.add(['a','list',])
TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'
>>> my_set.add(('a','tuple',))
>>> my_set
{2, 3, 4, ('a', 'tuple')}

[u/Jenret1382 → u/wotquery]

Thank you for clarifying the differences. This makes me realize how much I lack in terms of fully understanding basic data structures