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This document explains tuples in Python, highlighting their characteristics as ordered and immutable collections of different data types. It covers how to create, access, slice, and manipulate tuples, including converting them to lists and checking for item existence. Additionally, it discusses methods for joining and deleting tuples, emphasizing their limitations compared to lists.

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06_tuples

This document explains tuples in Python, highlighting their characteristics as ordered and immutable collections of different data types. It covers how to create, access, slice, and manipulate tuples, including converting them to lists and checking for item existence. Additionally, it discusses methods for joining and deleting tuples, emphasizing their limitations compared to lists.

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Day 6:

Tuples
A tuple is a collection of different data types which is ordered and unchangeable (immutable). Tuples
are written with round brackets, (). Once a tuple is created, we cannot change its values. We cannot
use add, insert, remove methods in a tuple because it is not modifiable (mutable). Unlike list, tuple has
few methods. Methods related to tuples:

tuple(): to create an empty tuple


count(): to count the number of a specified item in a tuple
index(): to find the index of a specified item in a tuple
operator: to join two or more tuples and to create a new tuple

Creating a Tuple
Empty tuple: Creating an empty tuple

# syntax
empty_tuple = ()
# or using the tuple constructor
empty_tuple = tuple()

Tuple with initial values

# syntax
tpl = ('item1', 'item2','item3')

fruits = ('banana', 'orange', 'mango', 'lemon')

Tuple length
We use the len() method to get the length of a tuple.
# syntax
tpl = ('item1', 'item2', 'item3')
len(tpl)

Accessing Tuple Items


Positive Indexing
Similar to the list data type we use positive or negative indexing to access tuple items.

# Syntax
tpl = ('item1', 'item2', 'item3')
first_item = tpl[0]
second_item = tpl[1]

fruits = ('banana', 'orange', 'mango', 'lemon')


first_fruit = fruits[0]
second_fruit = fruits[1]
last_index =len(fruits) - 1
last_fruit = fruits[las_index]

Negative indexing
Negative indexing means beginning from the end, -1 refers to the last item, -2 refers to the second
last and the negative of the list/tuple length refers to the first item.

# Syntax
tpl = ('item1', 'item2', 'item3','item4')
first_item = tpl[-4]
second_item = tpl[-3]
fruits = ('banana', 'orange', 'mango', 'lemon')
first_fruit = fruits[-4]
second_fruit = fruits[-3]
last_fruit = fruits[-1]

Slicing tuples
We can slice out a sub-tuple by specifying a range of indexes where to start and where to end in the
tuple, the return value will be a new tuple with the specified items.

Range of Positive Indexes

# Syntax
tpl = ('item1', 'item2', 'item3','item4')
all_items = tpl[0:4] # all items
all_items = tpl[0:] # all items
middle_two_items = tpl[1:3] # does not include item at index 3

fruits = ('banana', 'orange', 'mango', 'lemon')


all_fruits = fruits[0:4] # all items
all_fruits= fruits[0:] # all items
orange_mango = fruits[1:3] # doesn't include item at index 3
orange_to_the_rest = fruits[1:]

Range of Negative Indexes

# Syntax
tpl = ('item1', 'item2', 'item3','item4')
all_items = tpl[-4:] # all items
middle_two_items = tpl[-3:-1] # does not include item at index 3 (-1)

fruits = ('banana', 'orange', 'mango', 'lemon')


all_fruits = fruits[-4:] # all items
orange_mango = fruits[-3:-1] # doesn't include item at index 3
orange_to_the_rest = fruits[-3:]

Changing Tuples to Lists


We can change tuples to lists and lists to tuples. Tuple is immutable if we want to modify a tuple we
should change it to a list.
# Syntax
tpl = ('item1', 'item2', 'item3','item4')
lst = list(tpl)

fruits = ('banana', 'orange', 'mango', 'lemon')


fruits = list(fruits)
fruits[0] = 'apple'
print(fruits) # ['apple', 'orange', 'mango', 'lemon']
fruits = tuple(fruits)
print(fruits) # ('apple', 'orange', 'mango', 'lemon')

Checking an Item in a Tuple


We can check if an item exists or not in a tuple using in, it returns a boolean.

# Syntax
tpl = ('item1', 'item2', 'item3','item4')
'item2' in tpl # True

fruits = ('banana', 'orange', 'mango', 'lemon')


print('orange' in fruits) # True
print('apple' in fruits) # False
fruits[0] = 'apple' # TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment

Joining Tuples
We can join two or more tuples using + operator

# syntax
tpl1 = ('item1', 'item2', 'item3')
tpl2 = ('item4', 'item5','item6')
tpl3 = tpl1 + tpl2

fruits = ('banana', 'orange', 'mango', 'lemon')


vegetables = ('Tomato', 'Potato', 'Cabbage','Onion', 'Carrot')
fruits_and_vegetables = fruits + vegetables
Deleting Tuples
It is not possible to remove a single item in a tuple but it is possible to delete the tuple itself using del.

# syntax
tpl1 = ('item1', 'item2', 'item3')
del tpl1

fruits = ('banana', 'orange', 'mango', 'lemon')


del fruits

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