On Sun, Apr 10, 2016, at 05:13 PM, Fillmore wrote:
> 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?
No, you didn't. Your mistake is again -- parens don't make tuples,
commas do.
A one element tuple is:
>>> b = ("hello,)
The parens are optional, I always put them in because:
>>> b = "hello",
The parens group an expression, they don't make a type.
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