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Access Tuples

Learn all about Access Tuples in this comprehensive tutorial.

5 min read beginner

•You can access tuple items by referring to the index number, inside square brackets:
•Negative indexing means start from the end.
•You can specify a range of indexes by specifying where to start and where to end the range.
•Specify negative indexes if you want to start the search from the end of the tuple:
•To determine if a specified item is present in a tuple use the in keyword:

Access Tuple Items

You can access tuple items by referring to the index number, inside square brackets:

python

thistuple = ("apple", "banana", "cherry")
print(thistuple[1])

Note: Note: The first item has index 0.

Negative indexing means start from the end.

-1 refers to the last item, -2 refers to the second last item etc.

python

thistuple = ("apple", "banana", "cherry")
print(thistuple[-1])

You can specify a range of indexes by specifying where to start and where to end the range.

When specifying a range, the return value will be a new tuple with the specified items.

python

thistuple = ("apple", "banana", "cherry", "orange", "kiwi", "melon", "mango")
print(thistuple[2:5])

Note: Note: The search will start at index 2 (included) and end at index 5 (not included).

Note: Remember that the first item has index 0.

By leaving out the start value, the range will start at the first item:

python

thistuple = ("apple", "banana", "cherry", "orange", "kiwi", "melon", "mango")
print(thistuple[:4])

By leaving out the end value, the range will go on to the end of the tuple:

python

thistuple = ("apple", "banana", "cherry", "orange", "kiwi", "melon", "mango")
print(thistuple[2:])

Specify negative indexes if you want to start the search from the end of the tuple:

python

thistuple = ("apple", "banana", "cherry", "orange", "kiwi", "melon", "mango")
print(thistuple[-4:-1])

To determine if a specified item is present in a tuple use the in keyword:

python

thistuple = ("apple", "banana", "cherry")
  if "apple" in thistuple:  print("Yes, 'apple' is in the fruits 
  tuple")

2 questions

Which of the following is true about Access Tuples?

It is strictly typedIt is evaluated at runtimeIt requires explicit memory managementIt is deprecated

What is the most common pitfall when working with Access Tuples?

SyntaxErrorIndentationErrorNameErrorTypeError

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