Tuple question

Question

What's the output?
TupleA = ()
TupleA =(1,2,3)
TupleA+=(4,5,6)
print(TupleA)

If tuple can't change, why the answer is (123456) other than error in line2?

Answer 1

The actual tuple is not changed, but replaced by a new tuple, consisting of the values of the two old ones.

This whole mutability thing is basically about changing an object as it is, not re-assigning it.

For example you have a list arr:

arr.append(5)

This adds a 5 to the end of the list, so the object changes.

You can't do something like that with tuples.

With the = sign, you only give the name of the object to a new object.

a = (1, 2)
a = 'Whoops!'

The tuple a has not magically changed into a string - you just stripped the name off and pasted it to a newly created string instead.

(The tuple, now nameless, is silently and automatically deleted by Python.)