You have a tuple of integers—but you want a single integer. What can you do? Problem Formulation and Solution Overview Given a tuple of values. Goal: Convert the tuple to a single integer value. If you simply pass a tuple t into the int(t) built-in function, Python will raise a TypeError: int() argument must be … Read more
[toc] Problem Statement Create a tuple from user input in Python. Create a set from user input in Python. How to take Set as an Input from the User? Method 1: Using a Set Comprehension Approach: The simplest way to take a set as an input from the user is to use a set comprehension. … Read more
This article shows you how to apply a given function to each element of a tuple. The best way to apply a function to each element of a tuple is the Python built-in map(function, iterable) function that takes a function and an iterable as arguments and applies the function to each iterable element. An alternate … Read more
Background Python’s namedtuple() is an integral part of the Collections library and an immutable container type. Values, once set, can not be modified. You can access values by referencing them via the index or name attribute. The namedtuple() work similar to tuples. However, namedtuple() has additional functionality. This article touches on a few of these … Read more
Problem Formulation Given a tuple of elements. If you print the tuple to the shell using print((1, 2, 3)), the output is enclosed in parentheses like so: (1, 2, 3). But you want the list without brackets like so: 1, 2, 3. How to print the tuple without enclosing parentheses? Method 1: Unpacking The asterisk … Read more
Do you need to create a function that returns a tuple but you don’t know how? No worries, in sixty seconds, you’ll know! Go! ? A Python function can return any object such as a tuple. To return a tuple, first create the tuple object within the function body, assign it to a variable your_tuple, … Read more
Tuples, Strings, and Lists Before we look at creating tuples, as a starting point it would be useful to clarify the meaning of the various terms we will be using throughout this article: A string is a sequence of characters, and represents one of the main Python data types. A list is used to store … Read more
A Quick Introduction To Tuples Python consists of 4 built-in data types that are used to store collections of data. These data types are: List Set Dictionary Tuple A tuple allows you to store multiple items within a single variable. Hence, it is a collection that is ordered and unchangeable/immutable. Also, tuples are heterogeneous as … Read more
Python’s built-in function len() returns the length of the given string, array, list, tuple, dictionary, or any other iterable. The type of the return value is an integer that represents the number of elements in this iterable. Usage Learn by example! Here are some examples on how to use the len() built-in function. The examples … Read more
Summing up numbers is one of those repetitive tasks you need to do over and over again in your practical code projects. To help you accomplish this task in a concise, readable, and efficient way, Python’s creators have added the built-in sum() function. It sums over all elements in a Python list—or any other iterable … Read more
Python’s built-in tuple() function creates and returns a new tuple object. When used without an argument, it returns an empty tuple. When used with the optional iterable argument, it initializes the new tuple with the elements in the iterable. Read more about tuples in our full tutorial about Python Tuples. Usage Learn by example! Here … Read more
An arbitrary argument list is a Python feature to call a function with an arbitrary number of arguments. It’s based on the asterisk “unpacking” operator *. To catch an arbitrary number of function arguments in a tuple args, use the asterisk syntax *args within your function definition. For example, the function def f(*args): … allows … Read more