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In this program, we are given two tuples. We need to create a Python program to perform tuple Intersection.
Submitted by Shivang Yadav, on November 10, 2021

Tuples in Python are common types of collections that are used commonly for storing data records in python for processing. In fields like data science and AI, we need to process data tuples to extract fruitful information. In this problem, we will create a python program to perform tuple intersection.

Before going further with the problem, let's recap some basic topics that will help in understanding the solution.

Python programming language is a high-level and object-oriented programming language. Python is an easy to learn, powerful high-level programming language. It has a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming.

Tuples in Python is a collection of items similar to list with the difference that it is ordered and immutable.

Example:

tuple = ("python", "includehelp", 43, 54.23)

Tuple Intersection

The intersection of tuples is finding common elements from both the tuples i.e. the intersection tuple consists of all elements that are common in both the tuples.

In this program, we are given two tuples. We need to create a python program to return a tuple that contains the intersection elements i.e. elements that are common in both tuples.

Input:
tuple1 = (4, 1, 7, 9, 3, 5) , tuple2 = (2, 4, 6, 7, 8)

Output:
(4, 7)

Python provides multiple ways to solve the problem and here we will see some of them working.

Method 1:

One method to perform tuple intersection is by performing set intersection operation "&" which will find the intersection of sets. And we will be performing interconversion from a tuple to set and set to a tuple using set() and tuple() methods.

# Program to perform tuple intersection 
# using & operation, 

# initialising and Printing tuples 
myTup1 = (4, 1, 7, 9, 3, 5)
myTup2 = (2, 4, 6, 7, 8)
print("The elements in tuple 1 : " + str(myTup1))
print("The elements in tuple 2 : " + str(myTup2))
  
# Performing intersection operation 
intTuple = tuple(set(myTup1) & set(myTup2))
  
# Result of intersection operation
print("The elements of intersection of their tuples : " + str(intTuple))

Output:

The elements in tuple 1 : (4, 1, 7, 9, 3, 5)
The elements in tuple 2 : (2, 4, 6, 7, 8)
The elements of intersection of their tuples : (4, 7)

Method 2:

Another method to solve the problem is by using the intersection() method in place of & operator on sets. In this program also the interconversion is done using the set() method and the tuple() method.

# Program to perform tuple intersection 
# using & operation, 

# initialising and Printing tuples 
myTup1 = (4, 1, 7, 9, 3, 5)
myTup2 = (2, 4, 6, 7, 8)
print("The elements in tuple 1 : " + str(myTup1))
print("The elements in tuple 2 : " + str(myTup2))
  
# Performing intersection operation 
intTuple = tuple(set(myTup1).intersection(set(myTup2)))
  
# Result of intersection operation
print("The elements of intersection of their tuples : " + str(intTuple))

Output:

The elements in tuple 1 : (4, 1, 7, 9, 3, 5)
The elements in tuple 2 : (2, 4, 6, 7, 8)
The elements of intersection of their tuples : (4, 7)

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