On Jul 20, 12:27 pm, Phillip B Oldham <phillip.old...@gmail.com> wrote: > [snip] We > understand that lists are mutable and tuples are not, but we're a > little lost as to why the two were kept separate from the start. They > both perform a very similar job as far as we can tell.
My guess is that it was probably for optimization reasons long ago. I've never heard a *good* reason why Python needs both. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
