Re: f---ing typechecking

James Stroud <jstroud@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I increasingly come to the decision to avoid tuples altogether
because, eventually, you end up turning them into lists anyway

I don't. I end up extracting them to separate variables.

>>> foo = (12, None, "spam")
>>> # ...
>>> # much code, perhaps passing foo around as parameter
>>> # ...
>>> (bar, baz, wibble) = foo
>>> # code using bar, baz, and/or wibble

If they are eventually extracted to lists, then it generally makes no
sense for them ever to begin as a tuple.

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