On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> I'd rather be correct on the one-element case and wrong on the empty >> than the other way around. > > To say “commas create tuples” is to say an unobjectionably true > statement about Python syntax. It remains true as one continues to learn > Python. > > To say “parens do not create tuples” is to lay a trap which needs to be > de-fused at some point. Better IMO never to lay that trap.
Fair. "Commas create tuples" is correct but incomplete; "parens do not create tuples" is incorrect in a narrow way. Fortunately, technical correctness lines up with the more useful case of helping people understand the one-element case. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
