TUPLES
• Very similar to a list
• Once it is created it cannot be changed
• Format: tuple_name = (item1, item2)
• Tuples support operations as lists
• Subscript indexing for retrieving elements
• Methods such as index
• Built in functions such as len, min, max
• Slicing expressions
• The in, +, and * operators
• Tuples do not support the methods:
• append
• remove
• insert
• reverse
• sort
• Advantages for using tuples over lists:
• Processing tuples is faster than processing lists
• Tuples are safe
• Some operations in Python require use of tuples
• list() function: converts tuple to list
• tuple() function: converts list to tuple
