Python: changing value in a tuple

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Dawood picture Dawood · Jul 12, 2012 · Viewed 246.3k times · Source

I'm new to python so this question might be a little basic. I have a tuple called values which contains the following:

('275', '54000', '0.0', '5000.0', '0.0')

I want to change the first value (i.e., 275) in this tuple but I understand that tuples are immutable so values[0] = 200 will not work. How can I achieve this?

Answer

Jon Clements picture Jon Clements · Jul 12, 2012

First you need to ask, why you want to do this?

But it's possible via:

t = ('275', '54000', '0.0', '5000.0', '0.0')
lst = list(t)
lst[0] = '300'
t = tuple(lst)

But if you're going to need to change things, you probably are better off keeping it as a list

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