tags: #python/documentation/tuples

Tuple Indexing

Tuple indexing is very similar to indexing a list by using an index operator to retrieve elements in a tuple based on its index position.

# accessing tuple elements using indexing
letters = ("p", "r", "o", "g", "r", "a", "m", "i", "z")

print(letters[0])   # prints "p" 
print(letters[5])   # prints "a"

Tuple Slicing

We can access a range of items in a tuple by using the slicing operator ::

# accessing tuple elements using slicing
my_tuple = ('p', 'r', 'o', 'g', 'r', 'a', 'm', 'i', 'z')

# elements 2nd to 4th index
print(my_tuple[1:4])  #  prints ('r', 'o', 'g')

# elements beginning to 2nd
print(my_tuple[:-7]) # prints ('p', 'r')

# elements 8th to end
print(my_tuple[7:]) # prints ('i', 'z')

# elements beginning to end
print(my_tuple[:]) # Prints ('p', 'r', 'o', 'g', 'r', 'a', 'm', 'i', 'z')