Sebastian Haase wrote: > On 7/31/07, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ryan Krauss wrote: >>> I just tend to think in terms of lists rather than tuples. Why is a >>> tuple a more reasonable choice than a list? (I'm really asking and >>> not being argumentative, since you can't hear my tone.) >> The key thing is that the type of the container of records is different from >> the >> type of the record, so you'd either have to have a list of tuples (or a list >> of >> lists of ... tuples) or a tuple of lists. There is a tendency to use lists >> for >> homogeneous collections and tuples for inhomogeneous collections; Guido says >> that this is the main difference in how he uses tuples and lists. When you >> get >> an answer to a DB-API2 SQL query, you get a list of (usually augmented) >> tuples. >> > This is the best explanation I have heard about this yet. > Where does he say this ? Just for reference ....
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