Python Tuples

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A tuple in Python is an immutable ordered collection of elements.

Tuples are similar to lists, but unlike lists, they cannot be changed after their creation (i.e., they are immutable).
Tuples can hold elements of different data types.
The main characteristics of tuples are being ordered, heterogeneous and immutable.

Creating a Tuple

A tuple is created by placing all the items inside parentheses (), separated by commas. A tuple can have any number of items and they can be of different data types.

Python

tup=()print(tup)# Using Stringtup=('Geeks','For')print(tup)# Using Listli=[1,2,4,5,6]print(tuple(li))# Using Built-in Functiontup=tuple('Geeks')print(tup)

Output

()('Geeks', 'For')(1, 2, 4, 5, 6)('G', 'e', 'e', 'k', 's')

Let's understand tuple in detail:

Creating a Tuple with Mixed Datatypes.

Tuples can contain elements of various data types, including other tuples,lists,dictionaries and evenfunctions.

Python

tup=(5,'Welcome',7,'Geeks')print(tup)# Creating a Tuple with nested tuplestup1=(0,1,2,3)tup2=('python','geek')tup3=(tup1,tup2)print(tup3)# Creating a Tuple with repetitiontup1=('Geeks',)*3print(tup1)# Creating a Tuple with the use of looptup=('Geeks')n=5foriinrange(int(n)):tup=(tup,)print(tup)

Output

(5, 'Welcome', 7, 'Geeks')((0, 1, 2, 3), ('python', 'geek'))('Geeks', 'Geeks', 'Geeks')('Geeks',)(('Geeks',),)((('Geeks',),),)(((('Geeks',),),),)((((('Geeks',),),),),)

Python Tuple Basic Operations

Below are the Python tuple operations.

Accessing of Python Tuples
Concatenation of Tuples
Slicing of Tuple
Deleting a Tuple

Accessing of Tuples

We can access the elements of a tuple by using indexing andslicing, similar to how we access elements in a list. Indexing starts at 0 for the first element and goes up to n-1, where n is the number of elements in the tuple. Negative indexing starts from -1 for the last element and goes backward.

Python

# Accessing Tuple with Indexingtup=tuple("Geeks")print(tup[0])# Accessing a range of elements using slicingprint(tup[1:4])print(tup[:3])# Tuple unpackingtup=("Geeks","For","Geeks")# This line unpack values of Tuple1a,b,c=tupprint(a)print(b)print(c)

Output

G('e', 'e', 'k')('G', 'e', 'e')GeeksForGeeks

Concatenation of Tuples

Tuples can be concatenated using the + operator. This operation combines two or more tuples to create a new tuple.

Note: Only the same datatypes can be combined with concatenation, an error arises if a list and a tuple are combined.

Python

tup1=(0,1,2,3)tup2=('Geeks','For','Geeks')tup3=tup1+tup2print(tup3)

Output

(0, 1, 2, 3, 'Geeks', 'For', 'Geeks')

Slicing of Tuple

Slicing a tuple means creating a new tuple from a subset of elements of the original tuple. The slicing syntax is tuple[start:stop:step].

Note- Negative Increment values can also be used to reverse the sequence of Tuples.

Python

tup=tuple('GEEKSFORGEEKS')# Removing First elementprint(tup[1:])# Reversing the Tupleprint(tup[::-1])# Printing elements of a Rangeprint(tup[4:9])

Output

('E', 'E', 'K', 'S', 'F', 'O', 'R', 'G', 'E', 'E', 'K', 'S')('S', 'K', 'E', 'E', 'G', 'R', 'O', 'F', 'S', 'K', 'E', 'E', 'G')('S', 'F', 'O', 'R', 'G')

Deleting a Tuple

Since tuples are immutable, we cannot delete individual elements of a tuple. However, we can delete an entire tuple usingdel statement.

Note: Printing of Tuple after deletion results in an Error.

Python

tup=(0,1,2,3,4)deltupprint(tup)

Output

ERROR!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<main.py>", line 6, in <module>
NameError: name 'tup' is not defined

Tuple Unpacking with Asterisk (*)

In Python, the" * "operator can be used in tuple unpacking to grab multiple items into a list. This is useful when you want to extract just a few specific elements and collect the rest together.

Python

tup=(1,2,3,4,5)a,*b,c=tupprint(a)print(b)print(c)