Re: Python Interview Questions

From	Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Python Interview Questions
Date	2012-11-19 09:59 -0500
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OK, I've just read back over the whole thread.  I'm really struggling to 
understand what point you're trying to make.  I started out by saying:

> Use a list when you need an ordered collection which is mutable (i.e. 
> can be altered after being created).  Use a tuple when you need an 
> immutable list (such as for a dictionary key).

To which you obviously objected.  So now you write:

> I think a tuple is an immutable sequence of items, and a list is a 
> mutable sequence of items.

So how is that different from what I said?  Is this whole argument 
boiling down to your use of "immutable sequence" vs. my use of 
"immutable list"?

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Re: Python Interview Questions chinjannisha@gmail.com - 2012-11-17 10:01 -0800
  Re: Python Interview Questions Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-11-18 01:54 -0500
  Re: Python Interview Questions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-18 09:39 +0000
    Re: Python Interview Questions Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-18 08:53 -0500
      Re: Python Interview Questions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-18 16:50 +0000
        Re: Python Interview Questions "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> - 2012-11-18 12:16 -0500
        Re: Python Interview Questions Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-18 12:53 -0500
          Re: Python Interview Questions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-19 00:31 +0000
            Re: Python Interview Questions Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-18 21:09 -0500
              Re: Python Interview Questions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 13:18 +1100
              Re: Python Interview Questions Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-11-19 02:42 +0000
              Re: Python Interview Questions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-18 23:01 -0700
              Re: Python Interview Questions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-19 07:54 +0000
                Re: Python Interview Questions Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-19 09:30 -0500
                Re: Python Interview Questions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 09:44 -0700
                Re: Python Interview Questions Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-11-19 15:41 -0500
                Re: Python Interview Questions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-19 23:42 +0000
                Re: Python Interview Questions Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-19 21:33 -0500
                Re: Python Interview Questions Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-19 09:59 -0500
                Re: Python Interview Questions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-19 23:53 +0000
                Re: Python Interview Questions Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-19 22:14 -0500
                RE: Python Interview Questions "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-19 23:57 +0000
              Re: Python Interview Questions Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-11-19 03:27 -0500
        Re: Python Interview Questions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 07:02 +1100

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