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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 22:45:54 +1100
Subject: Re: Tuples and immutability
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On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
> TypeError: 257 is not 257
>
> I'm not sure "help" is the right word here ;)

It doesn't help with non-small integers, yes, but the original case
was a list. Personally, I don't think there are many situations that
would benefit from it, plus it'd be confusing ("I can use += with a
list but not a number, why not?!").

ChrisA