Is a string the same as a tuple of characters?

No, a string and a tuple of characters are not the same even though they share similar properties like immutability, concatenation, replication, etc.

A few differences between them are as follows:

1. in operator works differently in both of them. Below example shows this difference. Example:

my_string = "Hello"     
my_tuple = ('h','e','l','l','o')    
print("el" in my_string)
print("el" in my_tuple) 

Output

True  
False

2. Certain functions like split( ), capitalize( ), title( ), strip( ), etc. are present only in string and not available in tuple object.