Python: Tuple
Tuple
• Tuples are used to store multiple items in a single variable.
• Tuple is one of 4 built-in data types in Python used to store collections of data, the other 3 are
• List,
• Set, and
• Dictionary
• Tuples are like lists, but their elements are fixed; that is,
• once a tuple is created, one cannot add new elements, delete elements, replace elements, or reorder the elements in
the tuple
t1 = () # Create an empty tuple
t2 = (1, 3, 5) # Create a tuple with three elements
# Create a tuple from a list
t3 = tuple([2 * x for x in range(1, 5)])
# Create a tuple from a string
t4 = tuple("abac") # t4 is ['a', 'b', 'a', 'c']
Tuple vs List
Accessing Values in Tuples in Python
• Method 1: Using Positive Index
var = ("Geeks", "for", "Geeks")
print("Value in Var[0] = ", var[0])
print("Value in Var[1] = ", var[1])
print("Value in Var[2] = ", var[2])
• Method 2: Using Negative Index
var = ("Geeks", "for", "Geeks")
print("Value in Var[-3] = ", var[-3])
print("Value in Var[-2] = ", var[-2])
print("Value in Var[-1] = ", var[-1])
Slicing
# Accessing tuple elements using slicing
my_tuple = ('p','r','o','g','r','a','m','i','z')
print(my_tuple[1:4])
print(my_tuple[:-7])
print(my_tuple[7:])
print(my_tuple[:])
Changing a Tuple
• Tuples are immutable. This means that elements of a tuple cannot be changed once
they have been assigned but
• if the element is itself a mutable data type like a list, its nested items can be changed
# Changing tuple values
my_tuple = (4, 2, 3, [6, 5])
# However, item of a mutable element can be changed
my_tuple[3][0] = 9
print(my_tuple)
# Tuples can be reassigned
my_tuple = ('p', 'r', 'o', 'g', 'r', 'a', 'm', 'i', 'z')
print(my_tuple)
Delete Tuple Elements
• Removing individual tuple elements is not possible
• To explicitly remove an entire tuple, just use the del statement
tup = ('physics', 'chemistry', 1997, 2000);
print (tup)
del tup;
print ("After deleting tup : ")
print (tup)
Basic Tuples
Operations
• Tuples respond to the + and *
operators much like strings;
they mean concatenation and
repetition except that the
result is a new tuple, not a
string
Concatenation of Tuples in Python
# Code for concatenating 2 tuples
tuple1 = (0, 1, 2, 3)
tuple2 = ('python', 'geek')
# Concatenating above two
print(tuple1 + tuple2)
Nesting of Tuples
# Code for creating nested tuples
tuple1 = (0, 1, 2, 3)
tuple2 = ('python', 'geek')
tuple3 = (tuple1, tuple2)
print(tuple3)
Repetition Tuples
# Code to create a tuple with repetition
tuple3 = ('python',)*3
print(tuple3)
Finding Length of a Tuple
# Code for printing the length of a tuple
tuple2 = ('python', 'geek')
print(len(tuple2))
Converting list to a Tuple
# Code for converting a list and a string into a tuple
list1 = [0, 1, 2]
print(tuple(list1))
print(tuple('python')) # string 'python'
Obtain a list from a tuple
tuple2 = tuple([7, 1, 2, 23, 4, 5])
list1 = list(tuple2)
Tuples in a loop
# python code for creating tuples in a loop
tup = ('geek',)
n = 5 # Number of time loop runs
for i in range(int(n)):
tup = (tup,)
print(tup)
No Enclosing Delimiters
• Any set of multiple objects, comma-separated, written without
identifying symbols, i.e., brackets for lists, parentheses for tuples, etc.,
default to tuples
print 'abc', -4.24e93, 18+6.6j, 'xyz';
x, y = 1, 2;
print "Value of x , y : ", x,y;
Built-in
Tuple
Functions
Tuple cmp() Method
• If elements are of the same type, perform the comparison and return the
result. If elements are different types, check to see if they are numbers.
• If numbers, perform numeric coercion if necessary and compare
• If either element is a number, then the other element is "larger" (numbers are
"smallest").
• Otherwise, types are sorted alphabetically by name.
tuple1, tuple2 = (123, 'xyz'), (456, 'abc')
print cmp(tuple1, tuple2)
print cmp(tuple2, tuple1)
tuple3 = tuple2 + (786,);
print cmp(tuple2, tuple3)
Tuple max() Method
• This method returns the elements from the tuple with maximum
value
tuple1, tuple2 = (123, 'xyz', 'zara', 'abc'), (456, 700, 200)
print "Max value element : ", max(tuple1)
print "Max value element : ", max(tuple2)
Tuple min() Method
• This method returns the elements from the tuple with minimum
value
tuple1, tuple2 = (123, 'xyz', 'zara', 'abc'), (456, 700, 200)
print "min value element : ", min(tuple1)
print "min value element : ", min(tuple2)
Tuple tuple() Method
• This method returns the tuple
aList = [123, 'xyz', 'zara', 'abc']
aTuple = tuple(aList)
print "Tuple elements : ", aTuple
Questions
• What are the differences between a list and a tuple?
• How do you create a tuple from a list?
• How do you create a list from a tuple?
• What is wrong in the following code?
t = (1, 2, 3)
t.append(4)
t.remove(0)
t[0] = 1
• Is the following code correct?
t1 = (1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 0, 5)
t2 = (1, 2, 5)
t1 = t2
Questions
• Show the printout of the following code:
t = (1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 0, 5)
print(t)
print(t[0])
print(t[1: 3])
print(t[-1])
print(t[ : -1])
print(t[1 : -1])
• Show the printout of the following code:
t1 = (1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 0, 5)
t2 = (1, 3, 22, 7, 9, 0, 5)
print(t1 == t2)
print(t1 != t2)
print(t1 > t2)
print(t1 < t2)
