Łukasz Langa lukasz at langa.pl
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On Apr 17, 2014, at 11:49 AM, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Think of tuples like a struct in C, lists like an array.

I generally agree but it’s a bit more complex, for instance when you have a homogenous sequence but want it to be hashable. I just hit that today and felt a little bad using tuple because of that “struct” mindset :)

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