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+Creating a tuple:\\
+{\ex \lstinline|    t = (1, "hello", 2.5)|}
+
+Accessing elements of tuples:\\
+{\ex \lstinline|    t[index] Ex: t[2]|}
+
+Accessing slices of tuples:\\
+{\ex \lstinline|    t[start:stop:step]|}
+
+Swapping values:\\
+{\ex \lstinline|    a, b = b, a|}
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+.. Objectives
+.. ----------
+
+.. A - Students and teachers from Science and engineering backgrounds
+   B - Will learn what are tuples and why they are needed
+       Will learn the various methods of accessing elements in tuples
+   C - 
+   D - 
+
+.. Prerequisites
+.. -------------
+
+..   1. Getting started with lists
+     
+.. Author              : Nishanth Amuluru
+   Internal Reviewer   : 
+   External Reviewer   :
+   Checklist OK?       : <put date stamp here, if OK> [2010-10-05]
+
+Script
+------
+
+Hello friends and welcome to the tutorial on Tuples
+
+{{{ Show the slide containing title }}}
+
+{{{ Show the slide containing the outline slide }}}
+
+In this tutorial, we shall learn
+
+ * what are tuples
+ * their similarities and dissimilarities with lists
+ * why are they needed
+
+Let`s get started by defining a tuple. A tuple is defined by enclosing
+parantheses around a sequence of items seperated by commas. It is similar to
+defining a list except that parantheses are used instead of square brackets.
+::
+
+    t = (1, 2.5, "hello", -4, "world", 1.24, 5)
+    t
+
+defines a tuple. The items in the tuple are indexed using numbers and can be 
+accessed by using their position.
+::
+
+    t[3]
+
+prints -4 which is the fourth item of the tuple.
+
+::
+
+    t[1:5:2]
+
+prints the corresponding slice
+
+This is the behaviour similar as to lists. But the difference can be seen when
+we try to change an element in the tuple.
+::
+
+    t[2] = "Hello"
+
+We can see that, it raises an error saying tuple does not support item
+assignment. It only implies that tuples are immutable or in simple words,
+tuples cannot be changed.
+
+But what is the use of tuples!!!
+
+We shall understand that soon. But let us look at a simple problem of swapping
+values.
+
+{{{ Pause here and try out the following exercises }}}
+
+%% 1 %% a = 5 and b = 7. swap the values of a and b
+
+{{{ continue from paused state }}}
+::
+
+    a = 5
+    b = 7
+
+    a
+    b
+
+We define the two values
+::
+
+    temp = a
+    a = b
+    b = temp
+
+    a
+    b
+
+This is the traditional approach
+
+Now let us do it the python way
+::
+
+    a
+    b
+
+    a, b = b, a
+
+    a
+    b
+
+We see that the values are swapped.
+This idiom works for different datatypes also.
+::
+
+    a = 2.5
+    b = "hello"
+
+    a
+    b
+
+Moreover this type of behaviour is straight forward and what you would expect
+should happen naturally.
+
+This is possible because of the immutability of tuples. This process is called
+tuple packing and unpacking.
+
+Let us first see what is tuple packing. Type
+::
+
+    5,
+
+What we see is a tuple with one element.
+::
+
+    5, "hello", 2.5
+
+Now it is a tuple with two elements.
+
+So when we are actually typing two or more elements seperated by commas, those
+elements are packed and a tuple is made from them.
+
+When you type
+::
+
+    a, b = b, a
+
+First the values of b and a are packed into a tuple on the right side and then
+unpacked into the variables a and b.
+
+Immutability of tuples ensures that the values are not changed during the
+packing and unpacking.
+
+{{{ Show summary slide }}}
+
+This brings us to the end of the tutorial.
+we have learnt
+
+ * How to define tuples
+ * The similarities of tuples with lists, like indexing and iterability
+ * The immutability of tuples
+ * The value swapping idiom in Python
+ * packing and unpacking of tuples
+
+{{{ Show the "sponsored by FOSSEE" slide }}}
+
+#[Nishanth]: Will add this line after all of us fix on one.
+This tutorial was created as a part of FOSSEE project, NME ICT, MHRD India
+
+Hope you have enjoyed and found it useful.
+Thankyou
+
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+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%Tutorial slides on Python.
+%
+% Author: FOSSEE 
+% Copyright (c) 2009, FOSSEE, IIT Bombay
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\documentclass[14pt,compress]{beamer}
+%\documentclass[draft]{beamer}
+%\documentclass[compress,handout]{beamer}
+%\usepackage{pgfpages} 
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+
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+  stringstyle=\color{darkgreen},
+  showstringspaces=false,
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+% Title page
+\title{Your Title Here}
+
+\author[FOSSEE] {FOSSEE}
+
+\institute[IIT Bombay] {Department of Aerospace Engineering\\IIT Bombay}
+\date{}
+
+% DOCUMENT STARTS
+\begin{document}
+
+\begin{frame}
+  \maketitle
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+  \frametitle{Outline}
+  \begin{itemize}
+    \item 
+  \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%%              All other slides here.                  %%
+%% The same slides will be used in a classroom setting. %% 
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+  \frametitle{Summary}
+  \begin{itemize}
+    \item 
+  \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
+  \frametitle{Thank you!}  
+  \begin{block}{}
+  \begin{center}
+  This spoken tutorial has been produced by the
+  \textcolor{blue}{FOSSEE} team, which is funded by the 
+  \end{center}
+  \begin{center}
+    \textcolor{blue}{National Mission on Education through \\
+      Information \& Communication Technology \\ 
+      MHRD, Govt. of India}.
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