Python
Programming
Tuples in Python
Learning
outcomes:
• Python Tuple
• Accessing Values in Tuples
• Updating Tuples
• Deleting Tuple Elements
• Basic Tuples Operations
• Built-in Tuple Functions
• Tuple Methods
• Difference Between List and Tuple
Tuple
A tuple is a sequence of immutable Python objects.
Tuples are sequences, just like lists. The differences
between tuples and lists are, the tuples cannot be
changed unlike lists and tuples use parentheses,
whereas lists use square brackets.
A single tuple may contain Data Types like Integers,
Strings, as well as Objects. Creating a tuple is as
simple as putting different comma-separated
values. Optionally you can put these comma-
separated values between parentheses also.
For example:
tup1 = ('physics', 'chemistry', 1997, 2000);
Accessing Values in
Tuples
To access values in tuple, use the square brackets
for slicing along with the index or indices to obtain
value available at that index.
For example:
a = (1, 12.5, ‘a’, “python”, “Programming”)
print(a[1]) # Output is 12.5
print(a[3]) # Output is python
print(a[1:4]) # Output is [12.5, ’a’, ‘python’]
Accessing Values in
Tuples
Example:
T = (9,18,'Hi',12,"Hello",15.55,'Programming',100,125.5)
print(T[5])
print(T[1:5])
print(T[2:8])
print(T[Link])
print(T[-1])
print(T[-5])
How to take every nth-element of a tuple?
What if we want to have only every 2-nd element
of T? This is where the step parameter comes into
play.
Accessing Values in
Tuples
T = (9,18,'Hi',12,"Hello",15.55,'Programming',100,125.5)
print(T[Link]) # Here ‘3’ is step parameter
Now you also write the above code as
print(T[::3])
Here both print(T[Link]) and print(T[::3]) gives an
output as (9, 12, 'Programming‘)
Accessing Values in
Tuples
Example:
T = (9,18,'Hi',12,"Hello",15.55,'Programming',100,125.5)
print (T[2::2]) # ['Hi', 'Hello', 'Programming', 125.5]
print (T[2::3]) # ['Hi', 15.55, 125.5]
print (T[3::3]) #[12, 'Programming']
print(T[5:-2]) # [15.55, 'Programming']
print(T[-2:-5:-1]) # [100, 'Programming', 15.55]
print(T[-2:-7:-2]) # [100, 15.55, 12]
Updating Tuples
Tuples are immutable which means you cannot
update or change the values of tuple elements. You
are able to take portions of existing tuples to create
new tuples as the following example demonstrates:
tup1 = (10, 4.6);
tup2 = (‘Hi', ‘Hello');
# Following action is not valid for tuples
# tup1[0] = 100;
# So let's create a new tuple as follows
tup3 = tup1 + tup2;
print (tup3);
Deleting Tuple Elements
Removing individual tuple elements is not possible.
But you can delete the entire tuple.
To explicitly remove an entire tuple, just use the del
statement.
For example:
tup = ('Math', 'English', 85, 65);
print (tup);
del tup;
Basic Tuples Operations
Tuples respond to the + and * operators much like
strings; they mean concatenation and repetition
here too, except that the result is a new tuple, not
a string.
Let’s see some of the basic tuple operations in
Python.
Built-in Tuple Functions
Python includes the following tuple functions:
cmp(tuple1, tuple2) : Compares elements of both
tuples.
Please note cmp() does not support in python 3.
len(tuple): Gives the total length of the tuple.
max(tuple):Returns item from the tuple with max
value.
min(tuple): Returns item from the tuple with min
value.
Let’s see the example of tuple functions.
Tuple Methods
Python has two built-in methods that you can use
on tuples.
count(): Returns the number of times a specified
value occurs in a tuple
index(): Searches the tuple for a specified value and
returns the position of where it was found.
Let’s see the example of tuple methods.
Difference Between List and
Tuple:
[Link]. LIST TUPLE
1 Lists are mutable Tuple are immutable
Implication of iterations is Time- Implication of iterations is
2
consuming comparatively Faster
The list is better for performing
Tuple data type is appropriate for
3 operations, such as insertion
accessing the elements
and deletion.
Tuple consume less memory as
4 Lists consume more memory
compared to the list
Lists have several built-in Tuple does no have must built-in
5
methods methods.
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