How to Perform Operations on Tuples

Because tuples are immutable, meaning once they're defined, you cannot change their values. However, you can still perform operations on already defined tuples using operators such as + and *, similar to how you would with lists.

You can concatenate two tuples using the + operator.

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tuple1 = (1, 2, 3)
tuple2 = (4, 5, 6)

# Add tuples
combined_tuple = tuple1 + tuple2

# Outputs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
print("combined_tuple:", combined_tuple)

This example shows tuple1 and tuple2 being concatenated using the + operator and stored in the combined_tuple.

The * operator can be used to repeat the elements of a tuple a specified number of times.

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my_tuple = (1, 2, 3)

# Repeat the tuple twice
repeated_tuple = my_tuple * 2

# Outputs (1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3)
print("repeated_tuple:", repeated_tuple)

In this example, the elements of my_tuple are repeated twice using the * operator and stored in repeated_tuple.

The len() function returns the number of elements in a tuple.

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my_tuple = (1, 2, 3)

# Get the length of the tuple
tuple_length = len(my_tuple)

print(tuple_length)  # Outputs 3

This example calculates the length of the my_tuple using the len() function and stores it in the tuple_length variable.