On Sun, Apr 10, 2016, at 05:45 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > So, let's please stop saying “parens don't create a tuple”. They do, and > because of that I've stopped saying that false over-simplification.
I stand by "parens don't make a tuple", with the caveat that I should have mentioned the empty tuple exception that proves the rule. The only time you need parens is to resolve ambiguity. To suggest that parens do make tuples confuses the issue, given things like this: >>> a = 1,2,3 >>> b = (1, 2, 3) -- Stephen Hansen m e @ i x o k a i . i o -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list