On 15 Mar 2005 11:25:15 -0500, rumours say that [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roy Smith) might have written:
>The big question is, is it the parens that make it a tuple, or is it >the comma? If you go along with the parens school of thought, then >(1,) is the special case. If you believe in commas, then the () is >the special case. In either case, it's a bit ugly, but we learn to >overlook the occasional cosmetic blemishes of those we love :-) My take on this is that comma defines tuples, and () is the exception. .>> tpl = 1, 2, 3 * 4; print tpl (1, 2, 12) .>> tpl = (1, 2, 3) * 4; print tpl (1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3) So parentheses just change precedence (comma has lower precedence than star). -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958) I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
