TUPLE

INTRODUCTION
A tuple is a collection which is ordered and immutable (We cannot change elements of a tuple in
place). Elements of a tuple are enclosed in parenthesis (round brackets) and are separated by
commas. Tuples can store a sequence of values belonging to any type. Tuples allows duplicate
members.
Ex:- T1 = ( ) # Empty Tuple
T2 = (4,5,6) # Tuple of integers
T3 = (1.5,4,9) # Tuple of numbers
T4 = (‘x’, ‘y’, ‘z’) # Tuple of characters
T5 = (‘a’,1.5,’KVS’,45) # Tuple of mixed values
T6 = (‘KVS’, ‘NVS’, ‘EMRS’) # Tuple of strings
>>>t2 = (10,) # Single element tuple
Note:- comma is necessary in single value tuples. Without a comma it will be a value, not a tuple.
>>>t3=(10,20,30,40,50) # Long tuple
>>>t4=(6,(4,5),9,7) # Nested Tuple
● tuple( ) function is used to create a tuple from other sequences.
● Indexing of tuple is similar to indexing of list.
● Difference between List and Tuple
S. No. List Tuple
01 Elements are enclosed in square brackets Elements are enclosed in parenthesis
i.e. [ ] i.e. ( )
02 It is mutable data type It is immutable data type
03 Iterating through a list is slower as Iterating through a tuple is faster as
compared to tuple compared to list

TRAVERSING A TUPLE
Traversing a tuple means accessing and processing each element of it. A tuple can be traversed using
a loop.
Ex:- >>> T1=(2,4,6,8,10) Output: 2
>>> for a in T1: 4
print(a) 6
8
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ACCESSING TUPLES
Elements of a tuple can be accessed using Indexing and Slicing, same as in string and list.
if T1= (‘C’, ‘O’, ‘M’, ‘P’, ‘U’, ‘T’, ‘E’, ‘R’):

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Elements C 0 M P U T E R
+ index Value 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
- Index Value -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1

>>> T1[2] #WILL ACCESS ‘M’

>>> T1[-3] #WILL ACCESS ‘T’
>>> T1[1:7:1] #WILL ACCESS ‘OMPUTE’

OPERATORS IN TUPLE
Operation Name Description Example
Concatenation (+) Joining of two or more tuples is >>>t1 = (1, 2, 3)
called concatenation >>>t2 = (8, 9, 11)
Python allows us to join tuples >>>t1+t2
using concatenation operator (+) OUTPUT :
(1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11)
(#concatenates two tuples)
>>>t1 = (1, 2, 3)
>>>t2 = (8, 9, 11)
>>>t3 = t1+t2
(#Created new tuple)
OUTPUT :
(1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11)
Concatenation operator can also
be used for extending an
existing tuple.
>>>t1 = (1, 2, 3)
>>>t1 = t1 + (7,8,9)
>>>t1
It is used to repeat elements of a
>>>h1 = (‘H’ , ‘M’) >>>h1 * 3 (‘H’
Repetition (*) tuple. Repetition operation is
, ‘M’, ‘H’ , ‘M’, ‘H’ , ‘M’)
denoted by Symbol (*)
Membership The ‘in’ operator checks the >>>h1 = (‘H’ , ‘M’)
presence of element in tuple. If >>>’H’ in h1
the element is present it returns True
True, else it returns False. >>>’m’ not in h1
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 The not in operator returns True True
if the element is not present in
the tuple, else it returns False.
Slicing It is used to extract one or more >>>t1 = (1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9)
elements from the tuple. Like >>>t1[2:4]
string and list, slicing can be (3, 7)
applied to tuples also. >>>t1 =(10, 20, 30, 40, 50,
60, 70, 80)
>>>t1[2 : 7]
(30, 40, 50, 60, 70)
>>>t1[ : 5]
(10, 20, 30, 40, 50)
>>>t1[: : -1]
(80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10)

Tuple Methods and Built-in Functions

Method Name Description Example

>>>t1 =(10,20,30,40,50, 60, 70,

This method returns the length of 80)
len( ) tuple or the number of elements in
the tuple. >>>len(t1)
8
>>>t1 = tuple()
>>>type(t1)
<class ‘tuple’>

This function creates an empty tuple >>>t1 = tuple(‘python’) #string

tuple( ) or creates a tuple if a sequence is >>>t1
passed as argument. (‘p’, ‘y’, ‘t’, ‘h’, ‘o’, ‘n’)

>>>t1 = tuple([1,2,3]) #list

>>>t2
(1, 2, 3)

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 >>>t1 = tuple(range(7))
>>>t1
(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
>>>t1=tuple(“tuples in python”)
This function returns the frequency
count( ) >>>t1.count(‘p’)
of an element in the tuple.
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>>>t1=tuple(“tuples in python”)
>>>t1.index(‘n’)
This function returns the index of the 8
index( ) first occurrence of the element in the
given tuple. >>>t1=tuple(“tuples in python”)
>>>t1.index(‘f’)
ValueError: tuple.index(x): x not in tuple
>>>t1 = (‘t’, ‘u’, ‘p’, ‘l’, ‘e’, ‘s’)
This element takes tuple as an >>>sorted(t1)
argument and returns a sorted list.
sorted( ) [‘e’, ‘l’, ‘p’, ‘s’, ‘t’, ‘u’]
This function does not make any
change in the original tuple. >>>t1
(‘t’, ‘u’, ‘p’, ‘l’, ‘e’, ‘s’)
>>>t1 = (3, 8, 4, 10, 1)
>>>min(t1)
This function returns the minimum or 1
min( )
smallest element of the tuple. >>>t1 = (‘t’, ‘u’, ‘p’, ‘l’, ‘e’, ‘s’)
>>>min(t1)
‘e’
>>>t1 = (3, 8, 4, 10, 1)
>>>max(t1)
This function returns the maximum 10
max( )
or largest element of the tuple. >>>t1 = (‘t’, ‘u’, ‘p’, ‘l’, ‘e’, ‘s’)
>>>max(t1)
‘u’
>>>t1 = (3, 8, 4, 10, 1)
This function returns the sum of the
sum( ) >>>sum(t1)
elements of the tuple.
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Multiple Choice Question

Q.1 What type of error is returned by following code :
a=(“Amit”, “Sumit”,”Ashish”,”Sumanta”)
print(a.index(“Suman”))
(a) Syntax Error (b) Value Error (c) Type Error (d) Name Error
Q.2 What is the length of the given tuple? >>> t1=(1,2,(3,4,5))
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
Q.3 Which of the following statements will return an error. T1 is a tuple.
(a) T1 + (23) (b) T1 + [3] (c) Both (a) & (b) (d) None
Q.4 What is the output of following code?
>>> t1=(1,2,(3,4,5,2))
>>> print(len(t1[2]))
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
Q.5 Which of the following is not a tuple?
(a) P = 1,2,3,4,5 (b) Q = (‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’) (c) R = (1, 2, 3, 4) (d) None
Q.6 Which of the following is/are features of tuple?
(a) Tuple is immutable (b) Tuple is a sequence data type.
(c) In tuple, elements are enclosed in Parenthesis (d) All of the above
Q.7 Which of the following is not a function of tuple?
(a) update( ) (b) min( ) (c) max( ) (d) count( )
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