In python what type of thing is a list without square brackets?
Question:
I’m completely new to programming. I am using vscode and have python 3.10.5,I am following no starch press crash course in python (2nd edition) and in the section on lists it tells me that a list in python is written between square brackets, separated by commas, like the following:
list1 = ['a', 'b', 'c']
When I print this I get back the square brackets and the stuff inside, which is all fine. I was playing around and wrote the following (expecting an error)
list2 = 'a', 'b', 'c'
But when I print this, instead of an error I get back the right hand side but inside of round brackets.
What type of thing have I defined in list2?
Answers:
You can always run type(variable) to check the variable type. In this case, a "list" without brackets is not a list, it’s a tuple.
From the docs:
A tuple consists of a number of values separated by commas.
Parentheses are not required, though you will have to use them when building complex data structures, with nested tuples for example.
Reference: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#tuples-and-sequences
I’m completely new to programming. I am using vscode and have python 3.10.5,I am following no starch press crash course in python (2nd edition) and in the section on lists it tells me that a list in python is written between square brackets, separated by commas, like the following:
list1 = ['a', 'b', 'c']
When I print this I get back the square brackets and the stuff inside, which is all fine. I was playing around and wrote the following (expecting an error)
list2 = 'a', 'b', 'c'
But when I print this, instead of an error I get back the right hand side but inside of round brackets.
What type of thing have I defined in list2?
You can always run type(variable) to check the variable type. In this case, a "list" without brackets is not a list, it’s a tuple.
From the docs:
A tuple consists of a number of values separated by commas.
Parentheses are not required, though you will have to use them when building complex data structures, with nested tuples for example.
Reference: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#tuples-and-sequences