What is a tuple useful for?

Question

I am learning Python for a class now, and we just covered tuples as one of the data types. I read the Wikipedia page on it, but, I could not figure out where such a data type wo

Answer 1

I like this explanation.

Basically, you should use tuples when there's a constant structure (the 1st position always holds one type of value and the second another, and so forth), and lists should be used for lists of homogeneous values.

Of course there's always exceptions, but this is a good general guideline.