How to convert List to Tuple in Python

This article covers the topic of converting a list to tuple. A list is a mutable collection of elements while a tuple is an immutable collection.

Method 1:

Typecasting the list into a tuple using tuple().

def convert(list):
	return tuple(list)


list = [5, 2, 7, 1]
print(convert(list))

Output:

(5, 2, 7, 1)

Method 2:

In this method, the list is unpacked inside a tuple literal which is created due to the presence of the single comma (, ). This approach is a faster when compared to the above mentioned method but suffers from readability.

def convert(list):
	return (*list, )


list = [5, 2, 7, 1]
print(convert(list))

Output:

(5, 2, 7, 1)