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Tuple question

What's the output? TupleA = () TupleA =(1,2,3) TupleA+=(4,5,6) print(TupleA) If tuple can't change, why the answer is (123456) other than error in line2?

22nd Feb 2019, 4:28 PM
Zoe Liang
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The actual tuple is not changed, but replaced by a new tuple, consisting of the values of the two old ones. This whole mutability thing is basically about changing an object as it is, not re-assigning it. For example you have a list arr: arr.append(5) This adds a 5 to the end of the list, so the object changes. You can't do something like that with tuples. With the = sign, you only give the name of the object to a new object. a = (1, 2) a = 'Whoops!' The tuple a has not magically changed into a string - you just stripped the name off and pasted it to a newly created string instead. (The tuple, now nameless, is silently and automatically deleted by Python.)
22nd Feb 2019, 4:40 PM
HonFu
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