Wouldn't it have been better to define tuples with <>'s or {}'s or something else to avoid this confusion??
Well, to comment on the part that nobody else did... < and > are binary operators, a la 3 > 1, "one" < "two" and {}'s are clearly already used for dictionaries.
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