Tuple in Python

Tuple is like a list. Only difference is it's immutable whereas list is mutable. What it means is that one can change the elements of a list after initial assignment, however the elements of the tuple can't be changed. Tuple in that sense provides a write protection guarantee.

#Create a tuple of Country and Capital and we don't want to change it
#Note that tuple use parenthesis for definition

>>>tuple = (['India','Delhi'],['USA','Washington'],['Germany','Berlin'])

#Trying to change the tuple element fail

>>> tuple[0] = ['India','Pune']

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment

#accessing element of tuple

>>> tuple[0]

['India', 'Delhi']

#accessing sub-element of tuple

>>> tuple[0][1]

'Delhi'

#be careful you can change sub-element

>>> tuple[0][1] = 'Pune'

>>> tuple

(['India', 'Pune'], ['USA', 'Washington'], ['Germany', 'Berlin'])