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Tuples

A tuple is an immutable ordered sequence of elements of different data types enclosed in round brackets. Elements in a tuple can be accessed using index values and tuples support operations like concatenation, repetition, slicing and membership testing. Tuples can contain other tuples as elements and support tuple assignment to assign values to multiple variables simultaneously.

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Tuples

A tuple is an immutable ordered sequence of elements of different data types enclosed in round brackets. Elements in a tuple can be accessed using index values and tuples support operations like concatenation, repetition, slicing and membership testing. Tuples can contain other tuples as elements and support tuple assignment to assign values to multiple variables simultaneously.

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Tuple (Immutable)

A tuple is an ordered sequence of elements of different data types, such as integer, float, string, list
or even a tuple. Elements of a tuple are enclosed in parenthesis (round brackets) and are separated
by commas. Like list and string, elements of a tuple can be accessed using index values, starting from
0.

#tuple1 is the tuple of integers

>>> tuple1 = (1,2,3,4,5)

>>> tuple1 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

#tuple2 is the tuple of mixed data types

>>> tuple2 =('Economics',87,'Accountancy',89.6)

>>> tuple2 ('Economics', 87, 'Accountancy', 89.6)

#tuple3 is the tuple with list as an element

>>> tuple3 = (10,20,30,[40,50])

>>> tuple3 (10, 20, 30, [40, 50])

#tuple4 is the tuple with tuple as an element

>>> tuple4 = (1,2,3,4,5,(10,20))

>>> tuple4 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (10, 20)

**If there is only a single element in a tuple then the element should be followed by a comma. If
we assign the value without comma it is treated as integer. It should be noted that a sequence
without parenthesis is treated as tuple by default.

Accessing Elements in a Tuple-

Elements of a tuple can be accessed in the same way as a list or string using indexing and slicing.

>>> tuple1 = (2,4,6,8,10,12)

>>> tuple1[0]

>>> tuple1[3]

Tuple is Immutable –

Tuple is an immutable data type. It means that the elements of a tuple cannot be changed after it
has been created.

However an element of a tuple may be of mutable type, e.g., a list.


#4th element of the tuple2 is a list

>>> tuple2 = (1,2,3,[8,9])

#modify the list element of the tuple tuple2

>>> tuple2[3][1] = 10

#modification is reflected in tuple2

>>> tuple2 (1, 2, 3, [8, 10])

TUPLE OPERATIONS –

Concatenation-

Python allows us to join tuples using concatenation operator depicted by symbol +.

tuple1 = (1,3,5,7,9)

tuple2 = (2,4,6,8,10)

tuple1 + tuple2

(1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10)

Repetition-

Repetition operation is depicted by the symbol *.

tuple1 = ('Hello','World')

tuple1 * 3

('Hello', 'World', 'Hello', 'World', 'Hello', 'World')

Membership

The in operator checks if the element is present in the tuple and returns True, else it returns False.
tuple1 = ('Red','Green','Blue')

'Green' in tuple1

True

The not in operator returns True if the element is not present in the tuple, else it returns False.

tuple1 = ('Red','Green','Blue')

'Green' not in tuple1

False
Slicing-

tuple1 = (10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80)

tuple1[2:7]

(30, 40, 50, 60, 70)

tuple1[0:len(tuple1)]

(10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80)

tuple1[:5]

(10, 20, 30, 40, 50)

tuple1[2:]

(30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80)

tuple1[0:len(tuple1):2]

(10, 30, 50, 70)

tuple1[-6:-4]

(30, 40)

tuple1[::-1]

(80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10)


TUPLE METHODS AND BUILT-IN FUNCTIONS
TUPLE ASSIGNMENT –

It allows a tuple of variables on the left side of the assignment operator to be assigned respective
values from a tuple on the right side. The number of variables on the left should be same as the
number of elements in the tuple.

#The first element 10 is assigned to num1

and

#the second element 20 is assigned to num2.

>>> (num1,num2) = (10,20)

>>> print(num1)

10

>>> print(num2)

20

NESTED TUPLES –

A tuple inside another tuple is called a nested tuple.

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