TUPLE IN PYTHON
Dr. Smita R. Chavan
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Topics :
• Creating Tuple
• Accessing Elements in a Tuple
• Loop Through a Tuple
• Built-in functions used with Tuple
• Built-in Tuple Methods
• Deleting Tuples
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Tuple in Python
• Tuple is a collection which is ordered and unchangeable.
Allows duplicate members.
• A tuple is just like a list of a sequence of immutable
python objects.
• A tuple is declared in parentheses and cannot be
changed. However, you can take portions of existing
tuples to make new tuples.
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Creating Tuple :
• # empty tuple
• tup1 = ()
• print(tup1)
• month = ('Jan',‘Feb',‘March')
• print(month) Accept a number and create a tuple.
• For writing tuple for a single value,
• tup2 = (‘hi’,)
You need to include a comma, even though there is a single value.
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Tuple can have any number of items and they may be of
different types (integer, float, string,list etc.).
• emp_tuple = (1, “Amit", 40000.00)
• print(emp_tuple)
• Define product tuple consists of product number,name
and quantity.
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The tuple() Constructor
• It is also possible to use the tuple() constructor to make a
tuple.
• # empty tuple
• t1 =tuple ()
• print(t1)
• day =tuple( (‘Mon',‘Tue',‘Wed'))
• print(day)
• Accept a string and create a tuple,using constructor.
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Exercise 1:
• Write a python program which will define tuple of month in
words & accept number from user and print month in
words.
• Write a python program which will define tuple of one digit
number in words & accept number from user and print it in
words using function.
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Accessing Elements in a Tuple
We can use the index operator [] to access an item in a
tuple where the index starts from 0.
• my_tuple = ('p',‘y',‘t',‘h',‘o',‘n')
• print(my_tuple[0])
• # Output: 'p‘
• print(my_tuple[5])
• # Output: ‘n‘
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Accessing Elements in a Tuple:
We can access a range of items in a tuple by using
the slicing operator (colon).
• my_tuple = ('p',‘y',‘t',‘h',‘o',‘n')
• print(my_tuple[3:6])
• o/p : (‘h',‘o',‘n')
• print(my_tuple[:3])
• o/p :('p',‘y',‘t')
• print(my_tuple[3:])
• o/p : (‘h',‘o',‘n')
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• print(my_tuple [:])
o/p :('p',‘y',‘t',‘h',‘o',‘n')
• print(my_tuple[-2:])
• o/p :(‘o',‘n')
• print(my_tuple[:-2])
• o/p :('p',‘y',‘t',‘h')
• print(my_tuple[::2])
• o/p :('p',‘t',‘o')
• print(my_tuple[::-1]) # reverse the tuple
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Loop Through a Tuple
• You can loop through the tuple items by using a for loop:
fruit_tuple = ("apple", "banana", "cherry")
for fruit in fruit_tuple:
print(fruit)
• o/p:
• apple
• banana
• cherry
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Check if Item Exists
if “cherry" in my_tuple:
print("Yes, ‘cherry' is in the fruits tuple")
• Create a tuple of Mobile_brands. Accept a name of mobile
and check whether it is present in tuple or not.
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Built-in functions
T = (25,90,45,12,5)
Method Syntax Description Example
len() len(obj) Returns length of obj. len(T)
o/p : 5
sum() sum(obj) Returns the sum of all sum(T)
values from tuple obj . o/p:177
max() max(obj) Returns the max value from max(T)
tuple obj . o/p:90
min() min(obj) Returns the max value from min(T)
tuple obj . o/p:5
sorted() sorted(obj) Sorts objects of tuple. sorted(T)
o/p: [5, 12, 25, 45, 90]
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Built-in Tuple Methods
Python has two built-in methods that you can use on tuples.
num =(34,67,23,34,89)
Method Syntax Description Example
count() tuple.count(obj) Returns count of how num.count(34)
many times obj occurs in o/p : 2
tuple.
index() tuple.index(obj) Returns the lowest index num.index(89)
in tuple that obj appears. o/p:4
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Deleting Tuples
• Tuples are immutable and cannot be deleted, but deleting
tuple entirely is possible by using the keyword "del."
• fruit = ("apple", "banana", "cherry")
del fruit
print(fruit)
• #this will raise an error because the tuple no longer exists
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