22
Question Question 3(f)
Carefully read the given code fragments and figure out the errors that the code may produce.
t3 = (6, 7)
t4 = t3 * 3
t5= t3 * (3)
t6 = t3 * (3,)
print(t4)
print(t5)
print(t6)
Output
TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'tuple'
Explanation
The repetition operator * replicates the tuple specified number of times. The statements t3 * 3 and t3 * (3) are equivalent as (3) is an integer not a tuple because of lack of comma inside parenthesis. Both the statements repeat t3 three times to form tuples t4 and t5.
In the statement, t6 = t3 * (3,), (3,) is a single element tuple and we can not multiply two tuples. Hence it will throw an error.