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Python Introducing Tuples Getting to Know Tuples Creating Tuples

Posted by yakky
yakky
1,461 Points

why is the prompt asking to create a new variable and assign it to the third element of the tuple? The tuple's immutable

Is this a typo?

create_tuple.py 
# insert your code here

my_tuple = ('I', 'love', 'python')

1 Answer

Rachel Johnson
STAFF
Rachel Johnson
Treehouse Teacher
Rachel Johnson
Rachel Johnson
Treehouse Teacher

Hey yakky !

You are correct! Tuples are immutable. By definition: "A tuple is a collection which is ordered and unchangeable". It's unchangeable, but you can still grab the value at certain indexes because a tuple is ordered

For this challenge, we just have to grab the value at the 2nd index (since indexes start at 0)

item3 = my_tuple[2]

I hope this helps!