# A tuple
x = ("Paris Hilton", 1981)
type(x)

# You can address the members of a tuple using indices
x[0]

# A tuple of length one is specified like this
x = (1,)

# Note x is not a tuple here, as the interpretor just simplifies out the brackets
x = (1)

# Slicing works just like with strings:
x = ("a", "sequence", "of", "strings")
x[1:] 

def quotient_and_remainder (x, y):
    q = x // y
    r = x % y
    return (q, r)

(quot, rem) = quotient_and_remainder (4, 5)

julia = ("Julia", "Roberts", 1967, "Duplicity", 2009, "Actress", "Atlanta, Georgia")
len(julia) # The length of the tuple

x = ("a", "sequence", "of", "strings")
x[0] = "the" # Error

# To make edited tuples from existing tuples you therefore slice and dice them

print(("the",) + x[1:])

# Like strings we can do search in tuples using the in operator:
5 in (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
5 not in (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)