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

Tuples are used in :

1. places where you want your sequence of elements to be immutable
2. in tuple assignments

a,b=1,2

3. in variable length arguments

def add(*arg) #arg is a tuple
    return sum(arg)