What's the difference between arrays and tuples in python?

Question

I have been learning python as my 2nd programming language after javascript (Stopped learning it). When learning python, I haven't really paid attention to small things like the difference between tuples and arrays. Both of them can store some specific value, all I know is the difference is that in arrays we put our values we want to store between []'s, in tuples we store them between ()'s. Just please, tell me the difference.

Answer 1

Tuples are immutable and static, while lists are mutable and dynamic.

Answer 2

Tuples have a slight performance improvement to lists and can be used as indices to dictionaries. Arrays only store values of similar data types and are better at processing many values quickly

Answer 3

A tuple is a type of array that is ordered and immutable. In other words, a tuple is like a list (also a type of array) but you can’t change, add, or remove objects from it.

Answer 4

This page makes a nice comparison.

Some highlights:

• in arrays, only same kinds of elements can be stored, in tuples, different types can be stored too.
• array elements can be changed, tuple elements cannot be changed.