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From: Sebastian Wells <sebastian@here.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Lists in Python versus other languages
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:35:00 -0000 (UTC)
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On 24 Jun 2024 10:24:27 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:

> Sebastian Wells <sebastian@here.com.invalid> wrote or quoted: |..etc,
> taking into account that Python "lists" are really |arrays, and there's
> no real Lisp equivalent to tuples,
> 
>   Well, you could say that, in LISP, the dotted pair
> 
> ( 1 . ( 2 . NIL ))
> 
>   represents the list (1 2) while
> 
> ( 1 . 2 )
> 
>   represent the tuple "1,2".
> 
> |but they're essentially arrays also.

The thing that makes Python tuples different
from Python lists is that tuples are
immutable. Lisp doesn't have a type that
is "a list (or array) but it's immutable."

 
> |Lisp, there's no reader that will give you the original structure |from
> its string representation without having to also evaluate it
> 
>   In Python, the ast module can yield the structure of a module of
>   Python code (including list and tuple literals) without the need to
>   execute that code.
> 

It doesn't yield actual lists or tuples, so you can't use  it the
way OP was suggesting,  that is, the way you'd use the corresponding
Lisp feature.