On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Fillmore <fillmore_rem...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Okay, now you're asking a question in a reasonable way, so we can answer :) The thing you're confused at is that it's not the parentheses that create a tuple. Parentheses merely group. >>> 'hello', 'bonjour' ('hello', 'bonjour') >>> 'hello', ('hello',) One-element tuples are perfectly possible, but you MUST have a comma, so you have one at the end. The trailing comma is perfectly legal (and ignored) on larger tuples. >>> 'hello', 'bonjour', ('hello', 'bonjour') ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list