How to change values in a tuple?

Well, as Trufa has already shown, there are basically two ways of replacing a tuple's element at a given index. Either convert the tuple to a list, replace the element and convert back, or construct a new tuple by concatenation.

In [1]: def replace_at_index1(tup, ix, val):
   ...:     lst = list(tup)
   ...:     lst[ix] = val
   ...:     return tuple(lst)
   ...:

In [2]: def replace_at_index2(tup, ix, val):
   ...:     return tup[:ix] + (val,) + tup[ix+1:]
   ...:

So, which method is better, that is, faster?

It turns out that for short tuples (on Python 3.3), concatenation is actually faster!

In [3]: d = tuple(range(10))

In [4]: %timeit replace_at_index1(d, 5, 99)
1000000 loops, best of 3: 872 ns per loop

In [5]: %timeit replace_at_index2(d, 5, 99)
1000000 loops, best of 3: 642 ns per loop

Yet if we look at longer tuples, list conversion is the way to go:

In [6]: k = tuple(range(1000))

In [7]: %timeit replace_at_index1(k, 500, 99)
100000 loops, best of 3: 9.08 µs per loop

In [8]: %timeit replace_at_index2(k, 500, 99)
100000 loops, best of 3: 10.1 µs per loop

For very long tuples, list conversion is substantially better!

In [9]: m = tuple(range(1000000))

In [10]: %timeit replace_at_index1(m, 500000, 99)
10 loops, best of 3: 26.6 ms per loop

In [11]: %timeit replace_at_index2(m, 500000, 99)
10 loops, best of 3: 35.9 ms per loop

Also, performance of the concatenation method depends on the index at which we replace the element. For the list method, the index is irrelevant.

In [12]: %timeit replace_at_index1(m, 900000, 99)
10 loops, best of 3: 26.6 ms per loop

In [13]: %timeit replace_at_index2(m, 900000, 99)
10 loops, best of 3: 49.2 ms per loop

So: If your tuple is short, slice and concatenate. If it's long, do the list conversion!

It is possible with a one liner:

values = ('275', '54000', '0.0', '5000.0', '0.0')
values = ('300', *values[1:])

You can't modify items in tuple, but you can modify properties of mutable objects in tuples (for example if those objects are lists or actual class objects)

For example

my_list = [1,2]
tuple_of_lists = (my_list,'hello')
print(tuple_of_lists) # ([1, 2], 'hello')
my_list[0] = 0
print(tuple_of_lists) # ([0, 2], 'hello')

I´m late to the game but I think the simplest, resource-friendliest and fastest way (depending on the situation), is to overwrite the tuple itself. Since this would remove the need for the list & variable creation and is archived in one line.

new = 24
t = (1, 2, 3)
t = (t[0],t[1],new)

>>> (1, 2, 24)

But: This is only handy for rather small tuples and also limits you to a fixed tuple value, nevertheless, this is the case for tuples most of the time anyway.

So in this particular case it would look like this:

new = '200'
t = ('275', '54000', '0.0', '5000.0', '0.0')
t = (new, t[1], t[2], t[3], t[4])

>>> ('200', '54000', '0.0', '5000.0', '0.0')

tldr; the "workaround" is creating a new tuple object, not actually modifying the original

While this is a very old question, someone told me about this Python mutating tuples madness. Which I was very much surprised/intrigued, and doing some googling, I landed here (and other similar samples online)

I ran some test to prove my theory

Note == does value equality while is does referential equality (is obj a the same instance as obj b)

a = ("apple", "canana", "cherry")
b = tuple(["apple", "canana", "cherry"])
c = a

print("a: " + str(a))
print("b: " + str(b))
print("c: " + str(c))
print("a == b :: %s" % (a==b))
print("b == c :: %s" % (b==c))
print("a == c :: %s" % (a==c))
print("a is b :: %s" % (a is b))
print("b is c :: %s" % (b is c))
print("a is c :: %s" % (a is c))

d = list(a)
d[1] = "kiwi"
a = tuple(d)

print("a: " + str(a))
print("b: " + str(b))
print("c: " + str(c))
print("a == b :: %s" % (a==b))
print("b == c :: %s" % (b==c))
print("a == c :: %s" % (a==c))
print("a is b :: %s" % (a is b))
print("b is c :: %s" % (b is c))
print("a is c :: %s" % (a is c))

Yields:

a: ('apple', 'canana', 'cherry')
b: ('apple', 'canana', 'cherry')
c: ('apple', 'canana', 'cherry')
a == b :: True
b == c :: True
a == c :: True
a is b :: False
b is c :: False
a is c :: True
a: ('apple', 'kiwi', 'cherry')
b: ('apple', 'canana', 'cherry')
c: ('apple', 'canana', 'cherry')
a == b :: False
b == c :: True
a == c :: False
a is b :: False
b is c :: False
a is c :: False

You can change the value of tuple using copy by reference

>>> tuple1=[20,30,40]

>>> tuple2=tuple1

>>> tuple2
    [20, 30, 40]

>>> tuple2[1]=10

>>> print(tuple2)
    [20, 10, 40]

>>> print(tuple1)
    [20, 10, 40]