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What is Tuple?

Are sequence that are used to store a tuple of

values of any type

Tuples are immutable i.e. you cannot change

the elements of tuple in place.

Python will create a fresh tuple when we make

changes to an element of tuple.

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Creating and accessing

tuples
Tuples are created just like list except by
● parenthesis “()” in place of square
bracket “[]”
Examples of tuple :
()
(1,2,3)
(2,2.5,4,1.2)
(„a‟,1,‟b‟,2,‟c‟,3)
(„”red”,”green”,”blue”)
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Creating tuples

T = () # empty tuple
T = (value1, value2, value3,….)
This construct is known as tuple display
construct

1. Empty Tuple
T = () Or
T = tuple()
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Creating tuples
2. Single element Tuple
>>> T = (20)
>>> T
20
>>> T = 5,
>>> T
(5,)
>>> T = (100,)
>>> T
(100,)
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Creating tuples
3. Creating long tuples

roots =
(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20)

4. Nested tuples

>>> T1 = (10,20,30,(40,50,60),100)

>>> len(T1) #5
>>> T1[1] # 20
>>> T1[3][1] # 50
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Creating tuples from existing sequence

T = tuple(sequence)

>>> T = tuple('python')

>>> T
('p', 'y', 't', 'h', 'o', 'n')
>>> items=[100,200,300,400]
>>> T2 = tuple(items)

>>> T2
(100, 200, 300, 400)
>>> t1 = tuple(input('enter elements'))

enter elementsabcde
>>> t1
('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e')
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Using eval() while creating tuple

>>> mytuple=eval(input("enter tuple elements"))

enter tuple elements(10,'ravi',10.5)

>>> mytuple

(10, 'ravi', 10.5)

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Accessing Tuple elements

Similarity with strings:
● Just like string, every individual elements of tuples
are accessed from their index position which is from
0 to length-1 in forward indexing and from -1 to –
length in backward indexing.

● For example

● Fruits = (“mango”,”apple”,”guaua”,”pomegranate”,”cherry”)

● In above list items from mango to cherry are 0 to 4 and

from cherry to mango will be -1 to -5

0 1 2 3 4
Mango Apple Guaua Pomegranate cherry
-5 -4 -3 -2 -1
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Accessing List elements

● Tuple elements are accessed just like string like str[2] means
character at 2nd index tuple1[2] means elements at 2nd
index and tuple1[1:3] means all items between index 1 to 2

● Length : the function len(T) will return number of elements in

tuple

● Indexing and Slicing : T[i] will return item at index i and T[i:j]
means all items between index i to j-1 and T[i:j:n] means
every nth item between index i to j-1

● Membership operator : both “in” and “not in” can be used

to check the presence of any item in tuple

● Concatenation and Replication : allows the use of “+” and

“*” for tuple addition and replication
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Difference from Lists

● Although tuples are similar to list in many ways but yet

there is one major difference is “Lists are mutable” while
“Tuples are immutable”

>>> L1 = [10,20,30]

>>> T1 = (100,200,300)

>>> L1[1]=200 # VALID

>>>T1[1]= 150 # INVALID coz tuples are immutable

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Traversing tuple

● We can use “for” loop to access every element of tuple

qualifications=("B.A.","M.A.","B.Sc","M.Sc","MCA","M.Com","B.Tech")
for q in qualifications:
print(q)

Or

qualifications=("B.A.","M.A.","B.Sc","M.Sc","MCA","M.Com","B.Tech")

for i in range(len(qualifications)):
print("Index :“, i, „ „, qualifications[i])
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Tuple operations
1. Joining Tuple

>>> t1=(10,20,30)
>>> t2=('a','b','c')
>>> t3 = t1 + t2
>>> t3
(10, 20, 30, 'a', 'b', 'c')

Note: you can add tuple with only another tuple and not
with int, complex number, string or list

>>> t1 + 20 #Error

If you want to add a tuple with another tuple with one value
only and if you write statement as:
>>> t1 + (20) # Error, because (20) will be treated as number
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Tuple operations

To add single value tuple just add comma(,) after the value
as:
>>> t1 = (10,20,30)
>>> t1 + (50,)
(10,20,30,50)

Replicating Tuple:
>>> t1=("do","it")
>>> t1*3
('do', 'it', 'do', 'it', 'do', 'it')
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Slicing Tuples

T [start : end] # all values between index start to end – 1

data=(10,20,30,1,7,9,100,51,75,80)
data2 = data[4:-4]
print(data2)
print(data[1:6])
print(data[4:-2])
print(data[-40:4])
print(data[::-1])
print(data[::-2])
print(data[2:10:2])
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Slicing Tuples

T [start : end] # all values between index start to end – 1

data=(10,20,30,1,7,9,100,51,75,80)
data2 = data[4:-4]
print(data2)
print(data[1:6])
print(data[4:-2])
print(data[-40:4])
print(data[::-1])
print(data[::-2])
print(data[2:10:2])

Output
(7, 9)
(20, 30, 1, 7, 9)
(7, 9, 100, 51)
(10, 20, 30, 1)
(80, 75, 51, 100, 9, 7, 1, 30,
20, 10)
(80, 51, 9, 1, 20)
(30, 7, 100, 75)
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Slicing Tuples

>>> tp1 = (11,12,15,20,8,9,10)

>>> seq1 = tp1[::2]

>>> seq1 = tp1[5::2]

>>> tp1[2:5]*3

(15, 20, 8, 15, 20, 8, 15, 20, 8)

>>> tp1[2:5] + (500,1000)

(15,20,8,500,1000)
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Comparing tuples

>>> a=(10,20)
>>> b=(10,20)
>>> c=(20,10)
>>> a==b
True
>>> a==c
False
>>> d=(20.0,10.0)
>>> c==d
True
>>> a<c
True
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Unpacking tuples
Creating a tuple from a set of values is called packing and its
reverse i.e. creating individual values from tuple‟s elements is
called unpacking.

Unpacking is done by using following syntax:

var1, var2, var3, … = tuple_Object
Example:
>>> t1 = (100,200,300,400)
>>> a,b,c,d = t1
>>> a
100
>>> b
200
>>> c
T300

Note: Tuple unpacking requires that the list of variables on the left
side must be same as the length of tuple.
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Deleting tuples

The del statement of python is used to delete elements and

objects but as you know that tuples are immutable, which also
means that individual elements of tuples cannot be deleted.
For example

del t1[2] # Error, coz elements of tuple cannot be deleted

>>>t1 = ( 10,20,30)
>>> print(t1)
(10,20,30)
>>> del t1
>>> print(t1) # Error t1 is not defined
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Tuple functions and methods

1. len() : returns number of elements in the tuple
>>> book = („B001‟,‟Let Us Python‟,‟DP‟,500)
>>> len(book)
4
2. max() : it returns element from tuple having maximum value
>>> salary=(1000,1500,800,700,1200)
>>> max(salary)
1500
>>> fruits=("mango","pine apple","apple","carrot")
>>> max(fruits)
'pine apple„

Note: max() function will return maximum value only if all the elements
in tuple is of same type. If elements are of different type then python
will raise an exception.
>>> t1 = (10,20,30,(40,50),90)
>>> max(t1) # Error
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Tuple functions and methods

3. min() : it returns element from tuple having minimum value

>>> salary=(1000,1500,800,700,1200)
>>> min(salary)
700
>>> fruits=("mango","pine apple","apple","carrot")
>>> min(fruits)
'apple„
Note: min() function will return minimum value only if all the elements
in tuple is of same type. If elements are of different type then python
will raise an exception.
>>> t1 = (10,20,30,(40,50),90)
>>> min(t1) # Error

4. index() : it return index value of given element in the list, if element

not present it raises ValueError exception
>>> salary.index(800) #2
>>>salary.index(5000) # ValueError exception
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Tuple functions and methods

5. count() : it return the count of any element in the tuple i.e. how
many times the given element is in the tuple. If given element not in
the tuple it return 0.

>>> val=(10,20,30,20,10,60,80,20)
>>> val.count(20)
3
>>> val.count(80)
1
>>> val.count(100)
0
6. tuple(): this method is actually a constructor used to create tuples
from different type of values.
Creating empty tuple
tup = tuple()
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Tuple functions and methods

Creating tuple from string
tup = tuple(“quick brown fox”)
Creating a tuple from a list
tup = tuple([1,20,40])
Creating a tuple from keys of dictionary
>>> tup = tuple({1:”One”,2:”Two”})
>>> tup # (1,2)
Note: in a tuple() we can pass only a sequence (string, list, dictionary)
not a single value. If we pass value other than sequence it returns
error.

>>> t = tuple(10)
Error: „int‟ object is not iterable
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Indirectly modifying tuples

(a) Using Tuple unpacking

>>> val = (10,20,30)

>>> a,b,c = val
>>> b=30
>>> val=(a,b,c)
>>> val
(10, 30, 30)

(b) Using constructor function of lists and tuples i.e. list() and
tuple()

>>> foods=("rice","dosa","idli","mushroom","paneer")
>>> myfood = list(foods)
>>> myfood[2]="biryani"
>>> foods = tuple(myfood)
>>> foods
('rice', 'dosa', 'biryani', 'mushroom', 'paneer')