use of touple instead of list in settings.configure explanation

[amirwilf@…]

Hey,

I'm was trying to use Django templates and wanted to know how to configure the settings manually and I found this page:
​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/settings/

In "django.conf.settings.configure(default_settings, settings)", in the example it says to define:
"TEMPLATE_DIRS=('/home/web-apps/myapp', '/home/web-apps/base')"

from my tests and this page: ​http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/appendixD.html

it says to define:
"TEMPLATE_DIRS=['/home/web-apps/myapp', '/home/web-apps/base']"

[Tim Graham]

You may use either - tuples can't be changed (immutable) while lists can be; both are iterables. This is Python basics though, so I'm not sure it belongs in the Django docs.

[anonymous]

I get what you're saying but on the other hand, when I tried using a tuple it couldn't find the template and when I used a list it did - I didn't go too deep into the code to understand why or if this only happened to me for some reason.

[Claude Paroz]

Are you sure your tuple was a real tuple and not a mere string like ('/only/path/')? If you can reproduce it consistently, feel free to reopen.

[anonymous]

Well, My bad, I used only a single dir and didn't add a ',' after it to make it a tuple.
Sorry!