typeerror: tuple indices must be integers or slices, not tuple

Question

Problem:

I am trying to learn python3 and tuple. It was going pretty smooth unless I tried to access an element from a tuple of my program. It throws back an error: typeerror: tuple indices must be integers or slices, not tuple

What's wrong? Any explanation?

Answer 1

In python list and tuple are just simple sequences. We can only access their items by counting. Anyway, items stored in a dictionary are accessed through keys and not by counting as their items have no particular order. You can use tuples as keys of a dict, but an index or a slice makes no sense for a dict, just as a key makes no sense for a list or a tuple.

>>> t = (1, 2, 3)
>>> i = 0
>>> t[i]
1

See the above sample code to know the way of accessing a tuple element. As I can understand you were trying to access an element from a tuple by using another tuple. See the program below to understand how to do it:

>>> t = (1, 2, 3)
>>> k = 0
>>> i = k,
>>> print(i)
(0,)

I hope I was able to make it understandable. Thanks.

Answer 2

Tuple end list indices must be ints or slices, because tuples and lists are just simple sequences. You can only access their items by counting. However, items stored in a dictionary are accessed through keys and not by counting as their items have no particular order.

When you try to access a member of a list or tuple, which I suppose image is you do it with an integer inside sqare brackets like so :

image[0]

I think you are maybe trying to do this:

image[s][t]

This would access the int(s) member of image list/tuple. If this member happens to be a list also, you can access it's memebers by adding another square bracket with an inte inside it specifying the index of this member. If your loop is taking you through matrix of pixels in an image this makes sense also since with the first loop you might be going through rows of pixels and with the second through columns and try to retreive the RGB values.