<div dir="auto">Acknowledged. Any thoughts on the union idea?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 Feb 2017 22:12, "Barry" <<a href="mailto:barry@barrys-emacs.org">barry@barrys-emacs.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br></div><div>On 4 Feb 2017, at 21:59, Shaheed Haque <<a href="mailto:srhaque@theiet.org" target="_blank">srhaque@theiet.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 February 2017 at 21:56, Barry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry@barrys-emacs.org" target="_blank">barry@barrys-emacs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_-8894076226653796149gmail-"><br>
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> On 4 Feb 2017, at 21:35, Shaheed Haque <<a href="mailto:srhaque@theiet.org" target="_blank">srhaque@theiet.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The tuple API does have a PyTuple_SetItem operation,<br>
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</span>But that can only be used once to init the tuple. You cannot come back and replace a value.<br>
List is the only option if the array can be updated.<br></blockquote><div><br>I suspect you may well be right.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Tuples are immutable even in C code.</div><div><br></div><div>The setitem function can only be used after you creat the tuple with PyTuple_New.</div><div>Once you give a ref to a tuple away you must not attempt to modify by any means as that breaks python assumptions. I do not recall if python with assert on you if you break the rules.</div><div><br></div><div>Barry</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span class="m_-8894076226653796149gmail-HOEnZb"></span></div></div></div></div>
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