updating tuples tuples are immutablewhich means you cannot update or change the values of tuple elements you are able to take portions of existing tuplesto create new tuples as the following example demonstrates#!/usr/bin/python tup ( )tup ('abc''xyz')following action is not valid for tuples tup [ so let' create new tuple as follows tup tup tup print tup when the above code is executedit produces the following result( 'abc''xyz'delete tuple elements removing individual tuple elements is not possible there isof coursenothing wrong with putting together another tuple with the undesired elements discarded to explicitly remove an entire tuplejust use the del statement for example#!/usr/bin/python tup ('physics''chemistry' )print tupdel tupprint "after deleting tup "print tupnotean exception raisedbecause after del tuptuple does not exist anymore this produces the following result('physics''chemistry'