Python tuple operations – Add, Remove, Slice, Concat, Reverse

Hello everyone, Welcome back! Here I am going to discuss Python tuple operations. A tuple is a sequence of some objects, which is similar to a list. The main difference between a list and a tuple is We cannot change the values of the tuple, it’s immutable. So operations like append or modify cannot be performed on tuples.

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Task :

To perform add, remove, concatenate, reverse, and slice operations on a tuple.

Approach:

• Define a tupletup = [] with some sample items in it.
• Find the length of the tuple using len() function.
• Perform slice operation, slice operation syntax is tup[begin:end]
• Leaving the beginning one empty tup[:m] gives the tuple from 0 to m.
• Leaving the end one empty tup[n:] gives the tuple from n to end.
• Giving both begin and end tup[n:m] gives the tuple from n to m.
• An advanced slice operation with 3 options tup[begin:end:step]
• Leaving both begin and end empty and giving a step of -1, tup[::-1] it reverses the whole tuple .
• For deleting the entire tuple, just use del statement, del tup
• For concatenation, just use tup1 + tup2

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Program:

__author__ = 'Avinash'

tup = ('abc', 'def', 'ghi', 'jklm', 'nopqr', 'st', 'uv', 'wxyz', '23', 's98', '123', '87')

# prints the length of the tuple
print('\ntuple: ', tup)
print('Length of the tuple is : ', len(tup))

# Slicing
# shows only items starting from 0 upto 3
print('\ntuple: ', tup)
print('tuple showing only items starting from 0 upto 3\n', tup[:3])

# shows only items starting from 4 to the end
print('\ntuple: ', tup)
print('tuple showing only items starting from 4 to the end\n', tup[4:])

# shows only items starting from 2 upto 6
print('\ntuple: ', tup)
print('tuple showing only items starting from 2 upto 6\n', tup[2:6])

# reverse all items in the tuple
print('\ntuple: ', tup)
print('tuple items reversed \n', tup[::-1])

# removing whole tuple
del tup

tup_0 = ("ere", "sad")
tup_1 = ("sd", "ds")
print('\nfirst tuple: ', tup_0)
print('second tuple: ', tup_1)
tup = tup_0 + tup_1
print('Concatenation of 2 tuples  \n', tup)

Output:

There are a lot of similarities between a list and a tuple, A tuple can also be converted into a list. I covered list operations in another post, please feel free to look at it here.

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