Nested tuple
A nested tuple is a tuple containing one or more other tuples as elements.
Get Programming: Learn to code with Python
A nested tuple is a tuple whose elements include one or more tuples as subordinate collections.
- How it is used
- Uses nested tuples to access structured values and return multiple related collections from file-processing functions.
- How deep it goes
- Explains construction, length, indexing, slicing, chained access, and file-based organization, but stops short of advanced tuple internals.
- Examples
- Demonstrates deeply nested numeric and string tuples, quick-check expressions, and names-and-phone-numbers parsed from alternating file lines.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Python indexing and slicing to retrieve values or organize related file data into one return value.
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F# in Action: A Revised Edition of Get Programming with F#
A nested tuple is a tuple containing another tuple as one of its elements.
- How it is used
- Uses grouping to structure related tuple values and return multi-part results.
- How deep it goes
- Explains construction and two-level deconstruction, then stops short of broader tuple runtime representation.
- Examples
- Demonstrates a nested name-and-age value and an exercise returning personal details with an age category.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch by grouping tuple elements and deconstructing nested results in F#.
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Related concepts
- zipproduced by · Zip is an operation that combines corresponding elements from multiple iterables or collections into paired or otherwise combined results.
- tuplekind of · A tuple is a finite, ordered collection of elements treated as a single composite value or record.
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