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Subject: Re: Can Python function return multiple data?
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 23:28:00 -0400
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015, at 23:20, Rustom Mody wrote:
> The word immutuable happens to have existed in English before python.
> I also happen to have used it before I knew of python
> The two meanings do not match
> I am surprised
> Is that surprising?

They don't match only if you consider the objects a tuple references to
be part of the tuple.

You cannot change the reference. It will always point to the same list.