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Like strings and lists, tuple is a sequence structure in Python.

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A tuple is immutable. This simply means that we can’t insert or delete elements from a tuple.

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Syntax

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We can create a tuple with one or more elements simply by separating the elements with commas.

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Let’s create a tuple with one element:

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name = 'hemanta',
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The comma is very important. Without the comma, name is not a tuple.

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The tuple syntax that you will frequently come across is where the elements are enclosed by parentheses.

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name = ('hemanta', 'kumar', 'sundaray')
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Tuple unpacking

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We can unpack the elements of a tuple and store them in different variables as shown below:

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firstName, lastName = ('hemanta', 'sundaray')\n\nprint(firstName)\n# hemanta\n\nprint(lastName)\n# sundaray
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tuple() function

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We can also create tuples from other sequence structures, for example lists, using the tuple() function.

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frameworks = ['React', 'Vue', 'Angular']\n\nframeworks_tuple = tuple(frameworks)\n\nprint(frameworks_tuple)\n# ('React', 'Vue', 'Angular')
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Tuple concatenation

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We can combine tuples using the + operator.

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name = ('hemanta',) + ('kumar', 'sundaray')\n\nprint(name)\n# ('hemanta', 'kumar', 'sundaray')
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Tuple iteration

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We can iterate through the elements of a tuple using the for….in loop.

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languages = ('JavaScript', 'Python', 'Java')\n\nfor lang in languages:\n\tprint(lang)\n\n# JavaScript\n# Python\n# Java
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