Sorry guys. It was not my intention to piss off anyone...just trying to understand how the languare works
I guess that the answer to my question is: there is no such thing as a one-element tuple, and Python will automatically convert a one-element tuple to a string... hence the behavior I observed is explained... >>> a = ('hello','bonjour') >>> b = ('hello') >>> b 'hello' >>> a ('hello', 'bonjour') >>> Did I get this right this time? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list